Generate a New Phoenix Application
Learn how to create a Phoenix application.
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This is where the fun really begins. We’ll have a new web app up and serving pages with just a couple of shell commands. Phoenix will serve them faster than we might have thought possible.
Prerequisites
In the widget present in this lesson, we use Node.js to install front-end dependencies such as Brunch. Phoenix uses Brunch as a build tool. Node.js doesn’t play a role within Phoenix proper as such. Take a look at Appendix, Installing System Dependencies, if you need help installing them.
By default, the Phoenix project generator will install Ecto—the Elixir data wrapping and query generating package. The generator will also install Brunch by default.
We won’t need to use Ecto because we won’t be using a database. We will use Brunch because we need to serve some assets for our game’s web version.
We will call the Phoenix interface project ...