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kokolegorille
outlog
all chapters are now available..
What’s new?
All chapters have been updated.
Phoenix in Action is nearing the finish line! All chapters have been copyedited, tech reviewed, proofread, and updated. We still have some more polishing to do as we prepare the book for publication, so there is still time for you to post any final corrections or comments in the liveBook Discussion Forum.
What’s next?
The final eBook will be released April 2019, followed by the print book, and ePub and Kindle formats.
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Cervajz
OfLife
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geo
Author of Phoenix in Action
The final book has been released! I’ve got my physical copies and have heard from others around the world getting theirs. I hope you all enjoy it! If you don’t already have it, consider buying it through my special link. I’ll (as the author) get a little extra cut from any purchases.
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co0lsky
Greetings! I want to share how much I like one of the concepts in the book Phoenix in Action, which is assuming from the beginning that your app might be used in multiple ways in the future.
Before I switched to Elixir, I was writing PHP application. In most cases, I would assume I am building a web app and most of the business logic are written in the controller. At some points, I decouple the business logic to the service layer to increase the flexibility of the application.
However, in the book, it teaches to start by writing app logic as Elixir application. Then, bring the Elixir app into the Phoenix app.
An example architecture:
- project_root/apps/your_app - elixir app (app logic)
- project_root/apps/your_app_web - web app
With this architecture, you can have many entry points to the app logic, e.g. API, embedded device. For example, if you are going to support the mobile app with API, you can add project_root/apps/your_app_api and the app logic is sharing between web and API.
Happy learning!
This was originally posted at https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/phoenix-in-action-book-club/20456/3?u=co0lsky
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pillaiindu
Has someone used Phoenix in action recently?
I used it today with Phoenix version 1.4.17 (the book uses version 1.4.2)and the latest versions of all the dependencies and when I ran mix ecto.create in chapter 6, it was giving an error/warning as warning: could not find Ecto repos in any of the apps: [:auction, :auction_web]... and the task wasn’t completing and was asking the -r flag.
I thought, maybe I’ve missed something, so I went back to the page in book where he generates the umbrella app, and did all the steps from there. When it failed again, I copied the code from the exercise files and will use that instead.
I tried my best and failed to find the reason, but will still want to know what was breaking it.
Now I realized that I should have shared everything in the forum before deleting the code, but can’t undo it now.
If anyone else has experienced this problem, and has solved it, please share your solution!
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daskycodes
Hey, in chapter 6 there is no need to run mix ecto.create since there is just the FakeRepo implemented. The actual Auction.Repo will be implemented in chapter 7.
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geo
Author of Phoenix in Action