Chapter 6. Bring in Phoenix

So far, you’ve been running your Auction application in IEx. Although IEx does the job, is full-featured, and generally looks nice, the UI isn’t going to raise millions of dollars in seed money for your auction startup. To get users on your site and bids on the items in your database, you need a web interface so users can interact with the data. It’s time to bring in Phoenix.

The first thing you’ll want to do with Phoenix is list the items in the database—that’s what you’ll do in this chapter. Creating, editing, and deleting the items and bidding on them will all come later. By the end of this chapter, you should have something like figure 6.1 in your web browser.

6.1. Installing Phoenix on your system

The first thing you need to do to get your Phoenix application going is install Phoenix itself. If you’ve followed along so far, you should already have Elixir 1.5 or later installed on your system, as well as the Hex package manager tools.

6.2. Creating a new Phoenix application

6.3. Listing items from the fake repo

Summary