Phoenix is a
web development framework written in the
functional programming
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language
Elixir
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.
Details
Phoenix uses a
server-side model–view–controller
Model–view–controller (MVC) is a software architectural pattern commonly used for developing user interfaces that divides the related program logic into three interconnected elements. These elements are:
* the model, the internal representat ...
(MVC) pattern. Based on the Plug library, and ultimately the
Erlang HTTP server Cowboy, it was developed to provide highly performant and scalable
web application
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s. In addition to the request/response functionality provided by the underlying Cowboy server, Phoenix provides soft realtime communication to external clients through
WebSocket
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s or
long polling using its language agnostic channels feature.
Two notable features of Phoenix are LiveView and HEEx. LiveView provides real-time user experiences with server-rendered
HTML
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over
HTTP
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and WebSocket. HEEx is Phoenix's templating language which provides HTML-aware compile time checking.
See also
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Comparison of web frameworks Two comparisons of web frameworks are available:
* Comparison of JavaScript-based web frameworks
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General in ...
*
Mix (build tool)
References
External links
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