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#98: OTP backed Web Application Part 1
In part one of this series we’ll lay the foundation for our application. First we’ll see how we can fetch cryptocurrency prices. Then we’ll create a GenServer to store the prices and add it to our supervision tree.
Alchemist's Edition
#97: Schemaless Form Validations with Changesets
In this episode we’ll take an existing contact form and see how Ecto changesets can be used to perform schemaless form validations and display errors.
Alchemist's Edition
#96: Contact Form
In this episode we’ll build a contact form for an existing Elixir Phoenix application. When a user submits the form, an email will be sent using the Bamboo library.
Alchemist's Edition
#95: Phoenix LiveView Part 4
In part 4 of our Phoenix LiveView series we’ll use Phoenix Presence to track how many users are currently signed in to our application.
#94: Multiple Layouts with Phoenix
Often different layouts need to be rendered for different parts of a web application. In this episode we look at a few ways of doing this in Elixir.
Alchemist's Edition
#93: Ecto.Multi
In this episode we’ll explore Ecto.Multi in order to compose database transactions in Elixir.
#92: Introduction to Testing
Testing is an essential part of software development. In this episode we’ll get an introduction to testing in Elixir using the ExUnit test framework.
#91: Filtering Parameters in Phoenix
Often you’ll have sensitive information that you don’t want to show up logs. In this episode we’ll see how to configure Phoenix to specify what parameters you want filtered in your logs.
Alchemist's Edition
#90: Nested Forms with Phoenix
In this episode we’ll explore one way to use Phoenix to create a nested form that saves an associated record in our database.