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Phoenix Web Development

By : Brandon Richey
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Phoenix Web Development

By: Brandon Richey

Overview of this book

Phoenix is a modern web development framework that is used to build API’s and web applications. It is built on Elixir and runs on Erlang VM which makes it much faster than other options. With Elixir and Phoenix, you build your application the right way, ready to scale and ready for the increasing demands of real-time web applications. This book covers the basics of the Phoenix web framework, showing you how to build a community voting application, and is divided into three parts. In the first part, you will be introduced to Phoenix and Elixir and understand the core terminologies that are used to describe them. You will also learn to build controller pages, store and retrieve data, add users to your app pages and protect your database. In the second section you will be able to reinforce your knowledge of architecting real time applications in phoenix and not only debug these applications but also diagnose issues in them. In the third and final section you will have the complete understanding of deploying and running the phoenix application and should be comfortable to make your first application release By the end of this book, you'll have a strong grasp of all of the core fundamentals of the Phoenix framework, and will have built a full production-ready web application from scratch.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Introducing User Accounts and Sessions

Summary

It has been quite the journey! We've started with literally nothing, no code, no framework, nothing to build our application. From there, we've tackled and, more importantly, made sure we thoroughly understood each piece that went into building our Phoenix application!

We've implemented a social application from scratch, allowing real-time communication and live results viewing. We've implemented means of allowing the users to log in using popular social media OAuth providers so they don't have to create new accounts to start taking advantage of our platform!

We know and have practiced working with our database and working with Ecto over and over, and learned the ins and outs of setting up and configuring each step in the process along the way. We've explored turning our application into an application that supports API integrations in the...