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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

Improving Our Application and Adding Features

We are now in a place with our application where we have some very basic functionality and even a few cool little-advanced touches. This is a great first step for us to be in right now, but an application with just one core feature set is not going to be a very popular application for very long. We've been pretty happy just chugging along and writing the code that we needed to support our MVP product, but now that we have that first bit of work in place, it is time for us to start building on top of it in a real, meaningful way.

In this chapter, we will add a few new features onto our platform to demonstrate how to iterate on a Phoenix application and to showcase some of the other common features and libraries that people will find themselves building over time. By the conclusion of this chapter, we should have the following...