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Phoenix Web Development

You're reading from   Phoenix Web Development Create rich web applications using functional programming techniques with Phoenix and Elixir

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787284197
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Brief Introduction to Elixir and Phoenix FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Controllers, Views, and Templates 3. Storing and Retrieving Vote Data with Ecto Pages 4. Introducing User Accounts and Sessions 5. Validations, Errors, and Tying Loose Ends 6. Live Voting with Phoenix 7. Improving Our Application and Adding Features 8. Adding Chat to Your Phoenix Application 9. Using Presence and ETS in Phoenix 10. Working with Elixir's Concurrency Model 11. Implementing OAuth in Our Application 12. Building an API and Deploying 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding user accounts

As mentioned in the introduction for this chapter, we want to add user accounts to our polling application to facilitate linking polls to a user and giving a user ways to control access and information concerning each of the polls that they create. The process of actually tying all of this into our application is going to involve quite a few steps in the long run. We need to do the following:

  • Figure out what the database table should look like
  • Figure out what the code representation should look like
  • Determine if the addition of this table should introduce changes into other models or schemas
  • Write the migration code that introduces the new table
  • Write the migration code that modifies existing tables and data (if necessary)
  • Modify an existing context or create a new context
  • Create a new schema
  • Modify existing schemas that are affected by this addition
  • Tie...
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