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Real-Time Phoenix
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Real-Time Phoenix

by Stephen Bussey
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 58m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Write Channels as Components

Components are the heart of React. The type of component that we’re most familiar with is a presentation component—this type of component renders the user interface and accepts input events from the user. Components do not need to have an interface though. A container component can wire up logic, configure other components, pull data from other sources, or set up a context.

You use container components to separate Phoenix code from the rest of the application. You could get by without this separation, by adding Channels directly into a presentation component, but the lack of separation becomes hard to maintain and grow over time. Use components to create an application that is easy to change and understand.

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