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Phoenix Web Development

By : Brandon Richey
Book Image

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

Now we have our functionality in place to have users be able to create accounts, and also be able to log in to the system and log out appropriately. We've tackled some more in-depth form building and we've covered everything we've written in this chapter with a significant amount of tests. We can feel confident whenever we have to make any further changes to our code base that no insidious bugs have been introduced into our system!

Our work is not quite complete yet, however! We still haven't actually tied our polls to real users, nor have we locked any functionality behind our user's session or provided a visual way for the user to log out. In the next chapter, we'll dive more heavily into these topics and also spend a little bit of time talking more about handling different types of validations in Ecto and display error messages in our forms...