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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

Extracting response helpers

First, let’s move the render functions in Goldcrest.View to a helper module, which can also be imported into the Goldcrest.Controller.__using__/1 macro, allowing the controller to use functions such as redirect and render:

defmodule Goldcrest.ResponseHelpers do
  @moduledoc false
  import Plug.Conn
  require EEx
  def render(conn, :json, data) when is_map(data) do
    conn
    |> content_type("application/json")
    |> send_resp(200, Jason.encode!(data))
  end
  def render(conn, :json, data) when is_binary(data) do
    data = ensure_json!(data)
    conn
    |> content_type("application/json")
    |> send_resp(conn.status || 200, data)
  end
  def render(conn, :html, data) when is_binary(data) do
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