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Phoenix Web Development

You're reading from   Phoenix Web Development Create rich web applications using functional programming techniques with Phoenix and Elixir

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787284197
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Brief Introduction to Elixir and Phoenix 2. Building Controllers, Views, and Templates FREE CHAPTER 3. Storing and Retrieving Vote Data with Ecto Pages 4. Introducing User Accounts and Sessions 5. Validations, Errors, and Tying Loose Ends 6. Live Voting with Phoenix 7. Improving Our Application and Adding Features 8. Adding Chat to Your Phoenix Application 9. Using Presence and ETS in Phoenix 10. Working with Elixir's Concurrency Model 11. Implementing OAuth in Our Application 12. Building an API and Deploying 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a new migration

Given our newfound understanding of our complex object, we need to create our database table. Now, there are a few ways to do this. For example, we can use Phoenix and Ecto's built-in generators to give us a skeleton for this, but since we're trying to learn and understand the underlying systems that are needed for our application, we’ll start by NOT using generators to build our initial skeletons; later on, we’ll dive a little bit into using the generators and how to use them.

We'll get into a habit of learning what we can from the various help commands that exist in mix and IEx, so let's do the same. We can search for any of the Ecto commands that exist for mix with the following:

$ mix help | grep ecto
mix ecto # Prints Ecto help information
mix ecto.create # Creates the repository storage
mix ecto...
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