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Programming Phoenix
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Programming Phoenix

by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, Jose Valim
April 2016
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
300 pages
6h 58m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Building a Feature

Our first feature won’t be complicated. It’ll print a string when you load a specific URL. To build that feature, we’re going to use a small fraction of the files that mix phoenix.new created. Don’t worry. You’ll get a tour of the whole tree a little later. For now, everything we need is in the web subdirectory. We’ll edit router.ex to point a URL to our code. We’ll also add a controller to the web/controllers subdirectory, a view to web/views, and a template to web/templates.

First things first. We want to map requests coming in to a specific URL to the code that satisfies our request. We’ll tie a URL to a function on a controller, and that function to a view. You’ll do so in the routing layer, as you would for other web ...

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