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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

Introducing User Accounts and Sessions

In the previous chapter, we talked quite a bit about getting the introductory structures in place to handle the database side of our application. Now that we have a very strong understanding of contexts, schemas, and how they all tie into our Phoenix application with Ecto, we're going to start gluing all of this together and build another key component of our web application: creating user accounts!

Think about nearly every web application that you've used in the last year. Nearly every application has had some way to tie that information back to you in some way or another. Each app has provided a way for you to tie your data to yourself and provide some form of ownership of the data that you're putting into other peoples' databases, but at the end of the day if something is being otherwise attributed to you, you probably...