Phoenix Is Not Your Application
Understand the details of updating the framework in this lesson.
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It’s important to think about how we got into this situation, so we know how to get out of it.
Web applications
The way we talk about web applications gets us in trouble right away. We say, “I’m building a Rails app” or an Ember app or a Phoenix app, or an Elm app.
However, that’s not true. What we’re really doing is building a chat app, a banking app, or a game called Islands with a Phoenix, Ember, or Elm interface.
The problem is deeper than that, though. There are a number of ways to look at it, but this makes the most sense.
ActiveRecord models in Rails ...