Chapter 1Introducing Phoenix
The web has gone real time. The days of clicking links to load full pages are over. Websites are as interactive as desktop applications these days, if not more so. Servers manipulate widgets on a page with small data exchanges. Pages ship form data up piece by piece as it becomes available instead of waiting for one massive update. Today’s web developers need a framework designed from the ground up around a real-time architecture, and Phoenix is that framework.
Ironically, most of the individual pieces from Phoenix can also be found in other places. You’ll find metaprogramming capabilities that remind you of Lisp and domain-specific languages (DSLs) that remind you at times of Ruby. Our method of composing services ...
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