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Phoenix in Action
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Phoenix in Action

by Geoffrey Lessel
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
10h 45m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Phoenix in Action

Chapter 3. A little Phoenix overview

This chapter covers

  • What Phoenix is and how it relates to Elixir
  • The flow of a web request through Phoenix’s structure
  • An overview of the different modules you’ll create in this book
  • The transformation of data as it flows from one place to the next
  • The basic structure of a blogging application built on top of Phoenix

In the last chapter, you learned some of the basics of the Elixir programming language. If it was your first experience with the language, I hope you spent some time in an IEx session to play with different concepts and see how things work. We’ll be looking at and writing a lot of Elixir from this point on.

In this chapter, we’ll look at an example Phoenix application—one that isn’t too complex ...

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