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Building and testing a Phoenix JSON API

Learn how to build a blazing fast Phoenix API. Updated for Phoenix 1.2.
Paul Smith
August 2, 2016
- Elixir
- Testing
- Phoenix
Make Phoenix Even Faster with a GenServer-backed Key Value Store

Skip adding another dependency and leverage GenServer and Erlang Term Storage to build an in-memory key-value store for even faster Phoenix applications.
Josh Clayton
July 13, 2016
- Web
- Elixir
- Phoenix
How We Replaced React with Phoenix

How we replaced React with server-side rendering without anyone noticing.
Blake Williams
July 12, 2016
- Elixir
- Phoenix
- JavaScript
- Web
ExMachina Hits 1.0 - More Flexible, More Useful and Support for Ecto 2.0

ExMachina allows developers to create and manipulate test data in Elixir.
Paul Smith
July 11, 2016
- Elixir
- Testing
- Web
Deploying Elixir to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Docker

Deploy a Phoenix project that uses WebSockets to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Docker.
James Robert Somers
July 8, 2016
- Docker
- Elastic Beanstalk
- Elixir
- Phoenix
- Deployment
- AWS
- Websockets
Testing Elixir Plugs

Unit-test your Elixir Plugs with a few quick tips.
Josh Clayton
May 11, 2016
- Web
- Elixir
- Testing
- Phoenix
Announcing Bamboo, Email with a Functional Twist

Bamboo is a testable, composable and adapter-based email library for Elixir.
Paul Smith
April 4, 2016
- Elixir
- Email
Testing HTML in Phoenix Controllers

Learn how to use ExMachina and Phoenix’s ConnTest for robust controller tests.
Paul Smith
December 17, 2015
- Phoenix
- Elixir
- Testing
ExMachina for Elixir: Factories with a Functional Twist

Announcing a new factory library for Elixir.
Josh Steiner and Paul Smith
November 2, 2015
- Elixir
- Testing
- Web
Embedding Elixir Structs in Ecto Models

Store semi-structured data inside a Postgres table without sacrificing expressiveness.
Josh Steiner
October 15, 2015
- Elixir
- Ecto
- Web
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