Exploring the web one Elixir at a time
Phoenix, like many MVC frameworks provides you with a default layout to use and abuse to your hearts content.
What isn’t so clear is how to apply an alternative layout to all the views of a controller.
This post will try to show how quickly you can build a web application using Elixir and Phoenix.
For those that don’t know what Phoenix is, its a web application framework based on the MVC paradigm. In some ways its similar to Ruby on Rails (RoR). It has a similar structure, there are some generators for common code. Unlike RoR, Phoenix is fast - really fast and extremely stable The Road to 2 Million Websocket Connections in Phoenix.
