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Build Your Own Web Framework in Elixir

Build Your Own Web Framework in Elixir

By : Aditya Iyengar
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Build Your Own Web Framework in Elixir

Build Your Own Web Framework in Elixir

4.6 (10)
By: Aditya Iyengar

Overview of this book

Elixir's functional nature and metaprogramming capabilities make it an ideal language for building web frameworks, with Phoenix being the most ubiquitous framework in the Elixir ecosystem and a popular choice for companies seeking scalable web-based products. With an ever-increasing demand for Elixir engineers, developers can accelerate their careers by learning Elixir and the Phoenix web framework. With Build Your Own Web Framework in Elixir, you’ll start by exploring the fundamental concepts of web development using Elixir. You'll learn how to build a robust web server and create a router to direct incoming requests to the correct controller. Then, you'll learn to dispatch requests to controllers to respond with clean, semantic HTML, and explore the power of Domain-Specific Languages (DSL) and metaprogramming in Elixir. You'll develop a deep understanding of Elixir's unique syntax and semantics, allowing you to optimize your code for performance and maintainability. Finally, you'll discover how to effectively test each component of your application for accuracy and performance. By the end of this book, you'll have a thorough understanding of how Elixir components are implemented within Phoenix, and how to leverage its powerful features to build robust web applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Part 1: Web Server Fundamentals
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Part 2: Router, Controller, and View
10
Part 3: DSL Design

Creating responder behavior

Since we expect the applications using this HTTP server to define a responder module, it is a good idea to define a behaviour module for it.

Behaviors in Elixir

In Elixir, a behavior is a way of defining a set of functions that a module should implement to obey that behavior.

We use typespecs to define a behavior using the @callback module attribute.

On the implementation module, we can register a behavior using the @behaviour module attribute. This will allow the compiler to warn us if a function that was expected to be implemented wasn’t implemented.

Behaviors are a great way to define a shared API for a set of modules by defining a set of function specifications and having the ability to check whether those functions were actually implemented.

Let’s now define a behaviour module for a responder. We know that a responder must implement the resp/3 function, which takes a request, an HTTP method, and a path as a string to...

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