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Phoenix Web Development
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Phoenix Web Development

by Brandon Richey
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate
406 pages
9h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Building Controllers, Views, and Templates

This chapter is focused on the building blocks of any Phoenix application. By understanding what controllers, views, and templates are (and how they interact), it becomes much easier to build out our web application. We'll tackle this through the perspective of building the first major component of our Live Voting application, and by writing tests to cover the new functionality introduced.

The reader will become proficient in a lot of the basic tenets of using controllers, views, and templates. In addition, the reader will learn how the three pieces fit together via functional composition. Finally, they'll begin diving into writing their first tests covering controllers and views to start enforcing ...

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