Tidbits

A working demo of an Elixir/Phoenix application that attempts to follow best practices while implementing many of the modern features found in web applications.

Features

• User authentication & authorization using JSON Web Tokens JWT via the Guardian library.

• Database persistence with Postgres, including modeling has_many and belongs_to relationships, input validation, and default values. We'll also use trigger procedures and pg_notify to create a real-time pub/sub feature, pushing updates to the UI from the database layer.

• Implementing named slugs - Post title used as resource location. Instead of posts/1 the resource is accessed at posts/post.title, providing more meaningful routes and greatly improved SEO.

• Support for standard CRUD operations via a RESTful API. Authentication prevents users from editing or deleting posts that they did not create themselves.

• Real-time bidirectional communication via Phoenix Channels, which utilize websockets.

• More coming soon...currently in active development

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Run locally

• Clone or download the repo
• Install dependencies with mix deps.get
• Create and migrate your database with mix ecto.setup
• Install Node.js dependencies with cd assets && npm install
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server

Now you can visit localhost:5000 from your browser.

Links

• Official website: http://www.phoenixframework.org/
• Guides: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html
• Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix
• Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/phoenix-talk
• Source: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix