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Alchemist's Edition
#123: Using Phx.Gen.Auth with Swoosh
Now that we’re using Phx.Gen.Auth to handle authentication, let’s get our email notifications working. We’ll update our app to use the Swoosh package to send the user notification emails generated with Phx.Gen.Auth.
#122: Using phx_gen_auth for Phoenix Authentication
There are many ways to add authentication Phoenix apps. Here we’ll explore the new Phx.Gen.Auth package and how easily it can be used to add authentication to Phoenix apps.
#121: Introspecting Ecto Schemas
Let’s see how we can introspect Ecto Schemas using the __schema__ function. With it, we’ll be able to dynamically see what fields and associations a given schema has.
Alchemist's Edition
#120: Deploying Plug to Heroku
Now that we have a Plug.Router application working in development, let’s deploy it. We’ll deploy our app to Heroku.
Alchemist's Edition
#119: Plug.Router
Plug is a great option for smaller sites that don’t need a database and have limited routes. Here we’ll use Plug.Router to build a simple website that uses EEx to precompile our temples.
#118: Password Reset
In this episode we’ll build on simple authentication by giving users the ability to reset their passwords.
Alchemist's Edition
#117: File Uploads with Waffle
It’s easy to add file uploads to your application with Waffle. Here we’ll learn how to use Waffle to help us upload images for a blog application to Amazon S3.
#116: @impl Attribute
Make your code more readable by using the @impl attribute to mark what functions are implentations of callbacks.
Alchemist's Edition
#115: Phoenix LiveView and PubSub
In this episode, we’ll send events from a Phoenix LiveView JS Hook and broadcast them using Phoenix PubSub to update all subscribed clients in realtime.