This is an experimental template piece of software I'm working on for personal projects.
The exciting thing about using elixir as opposed to flask or express-node is that phoenix is fast.
Phoenix on average has a response time of 400µs.
This will hopefully be a useful and simple guide to more experienced developers who know how to use web/backend frameworks to create applications.
You can read through this guide and possibly convert your applications.
So it's perfect for building scalable REST API's that can handle a LOT of traffic at once, while still being usable.
Don't hack on this, I'm keeping this here for convenience as this is something new that I'm messing with.
Phoenix has 4 layers to its requests.
route -> controller -> view -> template
Most of the functionality lies in the following files.
| File | Summary | Location |
|---|---|---|
| router | This contains all the routes and route handlers for your application | web/router.ex |
| controller | So you define each controller in a separate file, they then handle sending the response, either through a view or with JSON. | web/page_controller.ex |
| view | usually a function to prepare a template to be sent back | web/templates/page_view |
| template | This is where our templates are actually stored, where you can use an erb type syntax to complete variables inside of the template. | web/templates/page/index.html.eex |
To start your new Phoenix application:
- Install dependencies with
mix deps.get - Start Phoenix endpoint with
mix phoenix.server
Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.
You can find out more about the phoenix framework on http://www.phoenixframework.org/.
https://robots.thoughtbot.com/testing-a-phoenix-elixir-json-api
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