Chapter 3Controllers, Views, and Templates
By now, you should have a loose grasp of how Phoenix applications work. You know that a typical request starts at an endpoint, flows through a router, and then flows into a controller. You should be starting to appreciate that web programming is a functional problem, and that it’s natural to represent it using a functional language.
As we promised, we’re going to abandon our brief Hello, World application. For the rest of the book, we’re going to work in a new project, and we’ll continue developing it through to the end. Before we get started, though, let’s take a deeper look at how controllers work.
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