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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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Your objects have no power here

Another thing that might be a little more difficult to contend with, especially if you're coming from a language where object-oriented programming is treated as a first-class citizen, is that objects are not a thing you can use in Elixir to organize your code or group data and functionality together. Again, let's use JavaScript as an example, as follows:

var greeting = "Hello There"greeting.toUpperCase() # Convert a string to upper case by calling a function on the "greeting" string object# End result: "HELLO THERE"

Here, you'll instead want to get used to the concept of using modules and functions to accomplish the same things. You can think of modules as a collection of related functions that operate on particular ...

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