Routes for an app with marketing pages for a single Phoenix app

stefanchrobot · May 13, 2020, 6:11pm

I’m building a web app, but I want to have some marketing pages (welcome page for sure, but maybe some contact, etc.) Is there a common or best practice for defining the routes?

In various apps I’ve seen the following:

https://myapp.com/* - marketing pages
https://app.myapp.com/* - the web app (this is sometimes even under a separate domain like getmyapp.com)

Is this doable with a single Phoenix app?

baldwindavid · May 13, 2020, 6:29pm

I have some marketing pages in a couple of my apps. If they don’t lend themselves to specific controllers, I usually just add them as actions in PageController with a few routes…

get "/", PageController, :index
get "/careers", PageController, :careers
get "/contact", PageController, :contact
post "/contact_request", PageController, :contact_request
get "/terms-and-conditions", PageController, :terms_and_conditions

My marketing and admin areas use mostly the same layouts and assets so this works fine and both are under the same domain. I might move to multiple Phoenix apps to more fully separate the marketing and admin areas in the future.