Programming Phoenix 1.4

In-context Relationships

So far, we’ve created a new context each time we create a new resource. However, one of the important ideas behind contexts is to group similar resources, meaning sometimes new resources should go into existing contexts. We already talked about how the Multimedia context could manage related entities such as videos, books and the like in the future.

Sometimes we’ll define relationships within the same context. For example, let’s add categories to our videos. Categories are simple resources. They have a single category name field that will be something like action, comedy or sci-fi. We expect our categories to be mostly fixed. After we define a few of them, we don’t expect them to change often. For this reason, we don’t ...