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Building Real-Time Web Applications with Phoenix LiveView

Gain insights into building real-time web apps with Phoenix LiveView. Learn about creating interactive code, building a game from scratch, and managing distributed real-time dashboards.

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If you want to program just for the joy of creating, LiveView will be an excellent opportunity for you. This programming model keeps your brain firmly on the server and lets you explore one concept at a time. Layering on graphics makes this kind of exploratory programming almost magical. Programmers learn by writing code, and that’s exactly how this course will work. We’ll work on a project together as if we’re a fictional game company. You’ll write lots of code, starting with small tweaks of generated code and building up to major enhancements that extract common features with components. As you build the application, you’ll encounter more complexity. A distributed dashboard will show a real-time view of other users and processes. You’ll even build a game from scratch—because that’s the best way to learn how to layer the most sophisticated LiveView applications.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Learn about the basics of Phoenix LiveView.

Explore techniques that help us organize our code into layers.

Learn Phoenix LiveView design and best practices.

Explore the process of Generators, Changesets and Testing in a LiveView.

Explore different ways of generating shapes by building a game prototype.

Learn about the basics of Phoenix LiveView.

Content

76 Lessons12 Quizzes

Introduction

5 Lessons

Get familiar with creating real-time web interfaces using Phoenix LiveView.

Before We Start

Create a Phoenix Project

The LiveView Lifecycle

Build a Simple LiveView

Quiz

Phoenix and Authentication

7 Lessons

Discover the logic behind structuring modules, handling requests, and implementing authentication in Phoenix.

Constructors, Reducers, and Converters

Phoenix (One Giant Function)

Generate the Authentication Layer

Explore Accounts from IEx

Protect Routes with Plugs

Authenticate The Live View

Quiz

Generators: Contexts and Schemas

5 Lessons

Break apart contexts and schemas in Phoenix LiveView to streamline CRUD functionalities.

Phoenix Live Generator

The Generated Core

The Generated Boundary

Boundary, Core, or Script?

Quiz

Generators: Live Views and Templates

7 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of Phoenix LiveView workflows, from routing and state management to modal and form interactions.

Application Inventory

The Product Index (Part-I)

The Product Index (Part-II)

Forms and Changesets

6 Lessons

Dig deeper into changesets for efficient data handling and real-time form validation using Phoenix LiveView.

Model Change with Changesets

Model Change with Schemaless Changesets

Schemaless Changesets in LiveView

LiveView Form Bindings

Live Uploads

Quiz

Stateless Components

7 Lessons

Tackle creating dynamic surveys using stateless components in Phoenix LiveView for efficient user experiences.

The Survey

Organizing LiveView

Build The Survey Context

Organize The Application Core and Boundary

Build The Survey Live View

How to Build The Demographic Form

Quiz

Stateful Components

7 Lessons

Build on creating and managing stateful components and displaying user demographics and ratings efficiently.

How to make the Demographic Component Stateful

How to show a Demographic

How to Build The Ratings Components

List Ratings

How to Show a Rating

How to Show the Rating Form

Quiz

Build an Interactive Dashboard

9 Lessons

Step through building an interactive real-time dashboard with Phoenix LiveView.

The Plan

Dashboard LiveView

How to represent Dashboard Concepts with Components

How to Fetch Survey Results Data

How to Initialize the SurveyResultsLive Component State

How to Render SVG Charts with Contex

Making Charts Interactive

How to Refactor Chart Code with Macros

Quiz

Build a Distributed Dashboard

5 Lessons

Get started with building a distributed real-time dashboard using Phoenix LiveView, PubSub, and Presence.

LiveView and Phoenix Messaging Tools

Tracking Real-Time Results

Tracking Real-Time User Activity

How to Display User Tracking

Quiz

10.

Test Your Live Views

5 Lessons

Break apart effective strategies for unit and integration tests for LiveView components.

What Makes CRC Code Testable?

Unit Testing the Survey Results State

Integration Testing LiveView Interactions

How to Verify Distributed Realtime Updates

Quiz

11.

Build The Game Core

6 Lessons

Apply your skills to build a game core by managing shapes, points, and user interactions.

The Plan

How to Represent a Shape With Points

Grouping Points Together in Shapes

Tracking and Placing a Pentomino

Tracking a Game in a Board

Quiz

12.

Render Graphics With SVG

6 Lessons

Solve problems in building user interfaces with Surface and rendering SVG graphics.

Building Components with Surface

Building Our First Surface Component

Render Points with SVGg

Compos With Componentsing

Putting It All Together

Quiz

Create Drag and Drop Web Components by Using Phoenix LiveView

Project

Premium

13.

Conclusion

1 Lessons

See how it works to build real-time web apps with Phoenix LiveView.

Congratulations

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

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