Phoenix Basics

Hello! Welcome to Phoenix Basics! In this jam packed day, we’ll build an application in Phoenix, a productive, reliable, and fast web framework. Before we get started, make sure you have the following:

  • Heroku:
    • Create an account on https://heroku.com
    • Install the CLI https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli
  • Amazon AWS
    • https://aws.amazon.com
  • Install Node https://nodejs.org/en/download/
  • Install Postgres https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Detailed_installation_guides
  • Install Elixir https://elixir-lang.org/install.html
  • Install Hex mix local.hex
  • Install Phoenix mix archive.install https://github.com/phoenixframework/archives/raw/master/phx_new.ez

Lost?

At any point that you’re lost, check out the final code here:

https://github.com/PhoenixBasics/Fawkes

We broke each section into branches so you can see the difference (this master branch is an empty commit from before we started our Phoenix project).

Resources: