Introduction

I bought, “Build It with Phoenix” by Geoffrey Lessel on 2023-08-2023 on sale.

I didn’t start on this until 2024-11-17 and finished it 2024-12-04.

It’s a program with videos and github codes to teach Phoenix and liveview.

Outline

Pros

• Teaches and goes into the mindset of how to debug
• How to read the document
• How Phoenix Auth generator works and how to use it
• How to upkeep a Phoenix project (Elixir in general too)

Cons

• Not in depth about liveview and Phoenix.
• A tad outdated still workable (phx-update="append")

Pros

Teaches and goes into the mindset of how to debug

• iex
• ecto debug with iex
• how to read error message and track down the line of codes that’s causing it
• IO.inspect

How to upkeep a Phoenix project (Elixir in general too)

• mix hex.outdated
• mix hex.clean --all
• mix hex.update --all
• mix clean
• mix compile

Cons

It’s not as in depth as, “Real-Time Phoenix” by Stephen Bussey.

Conclusion

Overall, a great introduction to Phoenix. I have a decent amount of experience of Phoenix, but I learned quite a bit.

The biggest thing I like was how to think about context.

It gave me a gentle introduction to liveview.

It’s a good first step into Phoenix and liveview and would recommend it.

It’s a bit tad expensive though at $129.

I hope Geo will update it with liveview version 1.0.