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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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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

Building a web app using the DSLs

Let’s take the web app we built in Chapter 7 as a starting point. Before making any changes, let’s ensure the app is still running properly by running the following command:

$ mix run --no-halt

Let’s go to http://localhost:4040/tasks in our browsers to make sure the page is rendered as follows:

Figure 9.1: Expected page

At this point, the TasksWeb.TaskController module should look as follows:

lib/tasks_web/controller/task_controller.ex

defmodule TasksWeb.TaskController do
  use Plug.Builder
  import Plug.Conn
  alias TasksWeb.Tasks
  def call(conn, action: action) do
    conn = super(conn, [])
    apply(__MODULE__, action, [conn, conn.params])
  end
  def index(conn, _params) do
    tasks = Tasks.list()
    conn
    |> put_status...
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