Phoenix Web Development

Running the Phoenix Mix Task

Phoenix has gone through a few iterations of general architecture and project structures, but as of version 1.3, they've stuck on a design that is incredibly elegant and easy to use. Instead of the sometimes clumsy system they previously had, where you had your models, your controllers, your views, and your templates and nothing in between, you can now design things around controllers, views, templates, contexts, and schemas. Before we start diving into what those differences are and why they’re so important, let's talk about the general project structure of a Phoenix application.

The first major thing is that Phoenix applications are considered first-class Elixir projects, so as such follow the same major rules. ...