Designing Elixir Systems With OTP

Integrate Your OTP Dependencies into Phoenix

Phoenix is a web framework. Once any web project grows beyond the most rudimentary level of complexity, you’re going to need to deal with complexity. We’ve been clear with the layers that make up any internal component. In this section, we’ll discuss how to think about your code organization when you need to plug in to someone else’s organization.

By now, you are familiar with the coding guidelines for layers that this book promotes. You are doubtlessly wondering how to integrate OTP code into Phoenix. Here’s the good news. Like all Elixir projects built with Mix, OTP is already built in! If you want to integrate a full and separate OTP project, you have a couple of options at your disposal: dependencies, ...