Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix
Rethink the Modern Web App
Book Description
Elixir and OTP provide exceptional tools to build rock-solid back-end applications that scale. In this book, you'll build a web application in a radically different way, with a back end that holds application state. You'll use persistent Phoenix Channel connections instead of HTTP's request-response, and create the full application in distinct, decoupled layers.In Part 1, start by building the business logic as a separate application, without Phoenix. Model the application domain with Elixir functions and simple data structures. By keeping state in memory instead of a database, you can reduce latency and simplify your code. In Part 2, add in the GenServer Behaviour to make managing in-memory state a breeze. Create a supervision tree to boost fault tolerance while separating error handling from business logic.
Phoenix is a modern web framework you can layer on top of business logic while keeping the two completely decoupled. In Part 3, you'll do exactly that as you build a web interface with Phoenix. Bring in the application from Part 2 as a dependency to a new Phoenix project. Then use ultra-scalable Phoenix Channels to establish persistent connections between the stateful server and a stateful front-end client.
You're going to love this way of building web apps!
Book Details | |
| Publisher: | The Pragmatic Programmers |
| By: | Lance Halvorsen |
| ISBN-13: | 9781680502435 |
| ISBN-10: | 1680502433 |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Pages: | 218 |
| Language: | English |
Book Preview | |
| Online | Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix |
Free Download | |
| Source Code | Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix |
Paper Book | |
| Buy: | Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix |
Share Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix
Related Books
