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Build Your Own Web Framework in Elixir

You're reading from   Build Your Own Web Framework in Elixir Develop lightning-fast web applications using Phoenix and metaprogramming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801812542
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aditya Iyengar Aditya Iyengar
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Web Server Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Introducing the Cowboy Web Server FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building an HTTP Server in Elixir 4. Part 2: Router, Controller, and View
5. Chapter 3: Defining Web Application Specifications Using Plug 6. Chapter 4: Working with Controllers 7. Chapter 5: Adding Controller Plugs and Action Fallback 8. Chapter 6: Working with HTML and Embedded Elixir 9. Chapter 7: Working with Views 10. Part 3: DSL Design
11. Chapter 8: Metaprogramming – Code That Writes Code 12. Chapter 9: Controller and View DSL 13. Chapter 10: Building the Router DSL 14. Index

Summary

In this chapter, we first learned what EEx is. We covered several ways of using it, from dynamically evaluating a string to using a template file for a module’s compilation. We also learned about EEx.SmartEngine, the default engine used by EEx for templating. We wrote a custom engine, CustomEngine, which used a marker that inspected the result of an element.

We then used all those concepts to update our HTTP server to return server-rendered HTML. We wrapped up by writing tests for our HTTP server and added Floki, an HTML parser, to write tests that allow us to validate an HTML response and test the attributes of an element.

In the next chapter, we will add the logic to define view modules, which will make using templates easier by housing some shared helper functions made accessible in the templates.

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