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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

We've now implemented some more quality-of-life features for our application that are things most people would come to expect from a modern application! Images are a major driver of internet applications nowadays (one only needs to look at the popularity of Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr for examples of this), so it makes sense that we'd try to implement our own image handling code, and the issue of how to implement this functionality that shows up all the time in places such as Stack Overflow and other troubleshooting forums. It made sense to include it here to provide a more thorough reference on how to do it yourself!

We also implemented an IP address-based vote restriction system into our application to make sure that a couple of malicious users couldn't just make sure that all of their favorite choices in each poll always won! It took a bit of running...