Building a best practices site for Phoenix, LiveView, Elixir, etc

[AstonJ]

I’d love to see a Phoenix Recipes book - I’ve posted about this in a few threads now:

@AstonJ

I wish someone would write an Elixir (or Phoenix) Recipes book - I have referred to the Rails Recipes book often over the years when working with Rails - not because it has info that isn’t anywhere else, but because it’s a lot of ‘good’ reliable info in one place. (Maybe some of our mods or regulars could write such a book )

I think it would be great if José and Chris were involved too, not necessarily as the people writing it, but as co-authors overseeing what is/isn’t included and maybe adding their thoughts on things every now and again.

It’s no longer in print, but this is what was in Rails Recipes:

Part I — Database

Recipe 1. Create Meaningful Many-to-Many Relationships 2
Recipe 2. Create Declarative Named Queries 7
Recipe 3. Connect to Multiple Databases 11
Recipe 4. Set Default Criteria for Model Operations 19
Recipe 5. Add Behavior to Active Record Associations 22
Recipe 6. Create Polymorphic Associations 26
Recipe 7. Version Your Models 31
Recipe 8. Perform Calculations on Your Model Data 36
Recipe 9. Use Active Record Outside of Rails 39
Recipe 10. Connect to Legacy Databases 41
Recipe 11. Make Dumb Data Smart with composed_of() 44
Recipe 12. DRY Up Your YAML Database Configuration File 48
Recipe 13. Use Models Safely in Migrations 50
Recipe 14. Create Self-referential Many-to-Many Relationships 52
Recipe 15. Protect Your Data from Accidental Mass Update 56
Recipe 16. Create a Custom Model Validator 58
Recipe 17. Nest has_many :through Relationships 61
Recipe 18. Keep Your Application in Sync with Your DatabaseSchema 63
Recipe 19. Seed Your Database with Starting Data 68
Recipe 20. Use Helpers in Models 70
Recipe 21. Avoid Dangling Database Dependencies 72

Part II — Controller

Recipe 22. Create Nested Resources 76
Recipe 23. Create a Custom Action in a REST Controller 80
Recipe 24. Create a Helper Method to Use in Both Controllers and Views 83
Recipe 25. Trim Your REST Resources 85
Recipe 26. Constrain Routes by Subdomain (and Other Conditions) 88
Recipe 27. Add Web Services to Your Actions 90
Recipe 28. Write Macros 94
Recipe 29. Manage a Static HTML Site with Rails 98
Recipe 30. Syndicate Your Site with RSS 100
Recipe 31. Set Your Application’s Home Page 108

Part III — User Interface

Recipe 32. Create a Custom Form Builder 112
Recipe 33. Pluralize Words on the Fly (or Not) 116
Recipe 34. Insert Action-Specific Content in a Layout 118
Recipe 35. Add Unobtrusive Ajax with jQuery 120
Recipe 36. Create One Form for Many Models 125
Recipe 37. Cache Local Data with HTML5 Data Attributes 131

Part IV — Testing

Recipe 38. Automate Tests for Your Models 136
Recipe 39. Test Your Controllers 141
Recipe 40. Test Your Helpers 145
Recipe 41. Test Your Outgoing Mailers 148
Recipe 42. Test Across Multiple Controllers 151
Recipe 43. Focus Your Tests with Mocking and Stubbing 157
Recipe 44. Extract Test Fixtures from Live Data 163
Recipe 45. Create Dynamic Test Fixtures 168
Recipe 46. Measure and Improve Your Test Coverage 172
Recipe 47. Create Test Data with Factories 176

Part V — Email

Recipe 48. Send Gracefully Degrading Rich-Content Emails 182
Recipe 49. Send Email with Attachments 185
Recipe 50. Test Incoming Email 188

Part VI — Big-Picture

Recipe 51. Roll Your Own Authentication 198
Recipe 52. Protect Your Application with Basic HTTP Authentication 203
Recipe 53. Authorize Users with Roles 206
Recipe 54. Force Your Users to Access Site Functions with SSL 211
Recipe 55. Create Secret URLs 212
Recipe 56. Use Rails Without a Database 216
Recipe 57. Create Your Own Ruby Gem 221
Recipe 58. Use Bundler Groups to Manage Per-Environment Dependencies 224
Recipe 59. Package Rake Tasks for Reuse with a Gem 226
Recipe 60. Explore Your Rails Application with the Console 228
Recipe 61. Automate Work with Your Own Rake Tasks 230
Recipe 62. Generate Documentation for Your Application 235
Recipe 63. Render Application Data as Comma-Separated Values 236
Recipe 64. Debug and Explore Your Application with the ruby-debug Gem 239
Recipe 65. Render Complex Documents as PDFs 244

Part VII — Extending Rails

Recipe 66. Support Additional Content Types with a Custom Renderer 250
Recipe 67. Accept Additional Content Types with a Custom Parameter Parser 253
Recipe 68. Templatize Your Generated Rails Applications 256
Recipe 69. Automate Recurring Code Patterns with Custom Generators 259
Recipe 70. Create a Mountable Application as a Rails EnginePlugin 266

The only issue really is Phoenix is moving pretty fast atm, so such a book might become outdated quickly (in which case a Recipes section here on the forum could be worth exploring, a bit like our ‘how would you’ type section, or adding something to the Phoenix site itself…)