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Phoenix Web Development
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Phoenix Web Development

by Brandon Richey
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
406 pages
9h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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A note about how data flows in Phoenix

If you're coming from the world of another web framework you might already be familiar with languages such as routers, controllers, templates, and views, but if you're not, let's talk a little bit about what those are, what they mean, and how the data flows in a Phoenix request all the way back out to the browser response. If you're already familiar with these topics, feel free to skip ahead to the next chapter.

When a request is received to a Phoenix application, the first thing that happens is that it gets handled by the endpoint. The endpoint's job is to take a look at the requests and to determine if there are any special functions or handlers that need to deal with the request. The request will ...

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