Lesson 0
What You're Getting Yourself Into...
Lesson 1 Installing Elixir, setting up a coding environment, and starting a Phoenix project.
Lesson 2 Controllers, Views and Templates
Lesson 3 Dealing with Ecto Repos for our Database
Lesson 4 Building an Index Action
Lesson 5 Supporting new forms, create actions and CSRF
Lesson 6 Building a Detail Page
Lesson 7 Adding Edit and Update Functionality
Lesson 8 Destroy Actions and the RestfulizerJS Library
Lesson 9 Ecto Queries
Lesson 10 Making the Application Look Awesome (Optional)
Lesson 11 Awesome work!
In this tutorial you're going to build a simple CRUD app using Elixir and the Phoenix Framework. It will support new, create, index, edit,update,destroy and a homepage.
When served in a production environment, pages can be rendered in microseconds, rather than milliseconds.
This tutorial assumes you have experience building web applications using other languages and frameworks.
Sometimes I will make analogies to Ruby on Rails, for clarity, so if you are not familiar with it, things might get a little confusing.
Source code for both the Guide and the Completed Splurty app are both available on GitHub.
If you follow through to the end of the tutorial, you will have built a web application with Phoenix and Elixir. The application will show a user generated quote that is randomly selected and pulled from a Postgres database. The quote will tell you why you should learn Elixir and should look like this:
