Phoenix in Action_p1

Description

Phoenix is a modern web framework built for the Elixir programming language. Elegant, fault-tolerant, and performant, Phoenix is as easy to use as Rails and as rock-solid as Elixirs Erlang-based foundation. Phoenix in Action builds on your existing web dev skills, teaching you the unique benefits of Phoenix along with just enough Elixir to get the job done.

Phoenix in Action is an example-based tutorial that teaches you how to use the Phoenix framework to build production-quality web apps. Following a running example of an online auction site, youll design and build everything from the core components that drive the app to the real-time user interactions where Phoenix really shines. Youll handle business logic, database interactions, and app designs that take advantage of functional programming as you discover a better way to develop web applications.

Key features

  Use channels for real-time communication

  Learn database interactions with Ecto

  Hands-on examples

  Step-by-step instructions

  Jargon-free

Audience

Written for web developers familiar with a framework like Rails or ASP.NET. No experience of Elixir or Phoenix required.

About the technology

Phoenix is a web framework for the Elixir language. Phoenix applications are blazingly fast, and as a developer youll appreciate the attention to detail in the framework design that makes you superproductive almost immediately. In particular, Phoenix channels provide an easy way to set up and manage real-time communication.