I’m a bit confused about what context really is after reading the Phoenix Context Guide . From the guide, it seems like Accounts context deals with everything related to users (registration, authentication, etc.). But aren’t those supposed to be its own contexts? So which of the following is the righ…

You’re right, depending on the structure of your application it might make sense to draw different lines between the contexts. Since it is just a question of how you want to organize your application, it doesn’t really matter as long as the way you split your contexts is reasonable and understandabl…

If Merchants are not Users (two different schema), does it still make sense to use option 2? In my mind, an Account is an account on a given app. The account could be of type User or Merchant.

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Since there will probably be additional Merchant functions in the future, Option 1 seems quite reasonable. Since Users are also going to be their own thing, an additional Users context might also be a good idea. And one more thing: Maybe consider renaming Users to Customers in order to be clearer …

it seems to me option 2 makes more sense because it will keep the context small. I am still unclear if we are suppose to keep our contexts from growing out of control with a huge amount of functions being placed in them? Anyone know the answer? @chrismccord In rails i would abstract methods out of …

@sammkj - There is no “right” or “wrong” way to build your application. It ultimately comes down to whatever makes the most sense to you for your specific use case. You’re already on the right track by considering your application structure beforehand, a benefit of Phoenix’s contexts. As to your …

Contexts are basically features of your app. Or practically, a business activity. For example, in a FinTech company, one of it’s activities/services is offering loans to its clients. Being a tech company, they want to automate it. So they ask the dev team to build a functionality to automatically…

To be honest I feel this is putting to much into the idea of phoenix contexts. While phoenix had to come of with some form of contexts to be able to provide generators for them I feel the idea is much broader: Do not put business logic in your web layer, but create an plain elixir setup of modules w…

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