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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)
4
Introducing User Accounts and Sessions

Summary

We've written our first major suite of database-level code and built all of the basic building blocks of our Phoenix application! We've covered the database side, the controller side, templates, views, and everything in between! We've even written a few tests to really shore up our working knowledge and understanding of our code.

We also have an admittedly basic user interface, which allows users to interact with our database in a proper way! Now that we have all of that, we need to start moving on to what is arguably one of the most important points of any web application: user accounts and authentication! Think of how much data is tied to you on a regular basis; in a similar fashion, we want to make sure that polls are secured and that any data about polls gets reported in the right ways! Given that, in our next chapter, we'll really start to harden...