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Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix
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Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix

by Lance Halvorsen
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
220 pages
5h 5m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
Content preview from Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix

Wrapping Up

We’ve done a lot in this chapter in a short amount of time. We created a new project for our web interface. We brought the game logic in as a dependency, and we got the interface to call into the game server.

That’s the surface-level view. Looking at it more deeply, we’ve solved one of the most vexing problems related to using web frameworks. We’ve created a clean separation between logic and interface that will make testing and maintaining our application a breeze. If we ever need to upgrade to a newer major version of Phoenix, it’ll be a much, much easier task than it would be with other frameworks.

At this point, we’re ready to tackle one of the most exciting parts of Phoenix—channels. Channels provide persistent, stateful connections ...

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