Real-Time Phoenix

What are Phoenix Channels?

Phoenix^[20] is a web framework written in Elixir that drives productive web application development. One of the components of Phoenix is Channels, a way to effectively write bidirectional real-time web applications. They allow us to write our application code without worrying about details such as “how is the connection set up and maintained?” or “how can I scale the number of connections easily?” We don’t have to use Channels in order to write our real-time applications, but Channels prevent us from needing to reinvent the wheel for each application we write. Plus, Channels are fairly generic, which makes them applicable to any type of real-time application.

Channels work, at a high level, by allowing clients to ...