A Walk Through of a Phoenix Web Application
Andrew Schutt
Hi, I am Andrew
What is Phoenix?
What is Phoenix?
- A city in Arizona
What is Phoenix?
- A city in Arizona
- A French band
What is Phoenix?
- A city in Arizona
- A French band
- A mythical creature
What is Phoenix?
- A city in Arizona
- A French band
- A mythical creature
- A web development framework!
Phoenix Web Framework
- Built with Elixir
- Makes use of MVC pattern
- Great for realtime
- Incredible performance
Elixir
- Functional Language
- Built on top of Erlang VM
- Highly Scalable
- Concurrent
- Syntax
Erlang
-module(hello_module).
-export([some_fun/0, some_fun/1]).
% A "Hello world" function
some_fun() ->
io:format('~s~n', ['Hello world!']).
% This one works only with lists
some_fun(List) when is_list(List) ->
io:format('~s~n', List).
% Non-exported functions are private
priv() ->
secret_info.
Elixir
defmodule HelloModule do
# A "Hello world" function
def some_fun do
IO.puts "Hello world!"
end
# This one works only with lists
def some_fun(list) when is_list(list) do
IO.inspect list
end
# A private function
defp priv do
:secret_info
end
end
Back to Phoenix
- Plug
- Ecto
- Cowboy
Plug
Ecto
Cowboy
To the code
A Walk Through of a Phoenix Web Application
By Andrew Schutt
A Walk Through of a Phoenix Web Application
A presentation I gave for Des Moines Web Geeks regarding the Phoenix Web Framework that I used for creating a raffle app for the event
