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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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Understanding the role of contexts

We talked a little bit about the sorts of issues that would lead us to want to control how our code is used and written since we don't want maintenance to become a giant hassle for us in the future. Therefore, let's instead simplify our lives by providing a single interface for related schemas and database operations.

Contexts fill that void by providing that unified interface, typically providing human-readable functions that allow the fetching, inserting, updating, and deleting of data. It can also do other database-specific operations that may be difficult to figure out ownership of (for example, should adding a new option to a poll live on the Poll or live on the schema? The correct answer is: neither!). ...

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