What this book covers

Chapter 1, A Brief Introduction to Elixir and Phoenix, goes over the basics of developing in Elixir and Phoenix and makes the readers understand some of the basic constructs available.

Chapter 2, Building Controllers, Views, and Templates, covers working with the fundamentals of every Phoenix application.

Chapter 3, Storing and Retrieving Vote Data with Ecto Pages, discusses working with data in our database.

Chapter 4, Introducing User Accounts and Sessions, begins to introduce the concept of Users into our system and introduces working with login, logout, and session management.

Chapter 5, Validations, Errors, and Tying Loose Ends, explores working on tightening up our application through validation, error-handling, and general tweaks.

Chapter 6, Live Voting with Phoenix, starts building out a real-time application with Phoenix and JavaScript.

Chapter 7, Improving Our Application and Adding Features, continues to build upon the solid foundation of our application and brings it closer to production-ready.

Chapter 8, Adding Chat to Your Phoenix Application, adds even more real-time feature support.

Chapter 9, Using Presence and ETS in Phoenix, teaches readers to use Phoenix's new Presence support to keep track of what users are logged in or logged out of our system.

Chapter 10, Working with Elixir's Concurrency Model, takes readers through how Elixir handles concurrency implementations at a deeper level.

Chapter 11, Implementing OAuth in Our Application, implements a new way for users to sign in with providers such as Twitter and Google.

Chapter 12, Building an API and Deploying, outlines finishing reading our application, adding an API to interact with our application, and finally finishing deploying our application to production.