Chris McCord - Programming Phoenix 1.4

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This is the last beta! With this release, were content complete. Among the changes are these:

• You now have the last chapter: Chapter 14, . In it we address LiveView, PubSub 2.0, and the coming additions to Phoenix.

• We aligned the configuration with the deployment strategies necessary to build a release to prepare for Elixirs deployment changes.

• We have taken an extensive pass through the entire text, cleaning up each chapter along the way and making things consistent.

• We have also taken an extensive pass through the errata. Thanks for all of your help with this! For those of you who have been keeping us busy, please accept our thanks. Youve gotten us through to the production process when our editors and reviewers will go over the book in detail.

The next time you see this page, well be in production! Thanks for all of your help.

The last update to the regular chapters is IN! We finished the Testing OTP chapter. Due to some major restructuring of the OTP design, the testing chapter took a while to get right. We can see the finish line. Heres whats coming.

• We still owe you a treatment of Channel Presence.

• We will align the configuration with the deployment strategies necessary to build a release.

• We will add a treatment of LiveView in the last chapter.

We hope youre enjoying the rewrite so far. Happy reading!

Has it really been this long? Chris has been heads down on LiveView so its been a little longer than we wanted. We have a bit of reorganization to do before the next beta, but it should be faster this time around. We know that we owe you a channel presence discussion. Sit tight.

• We added a new chapter: Chapter 11, . It took us a while to get it right because this part of the Phoenix tooling has changed. We had a couple of false starts because we tried to reshape the existing apps, then use mix.new and finally we settled on mix phx.new with the --umbrella option.

• We addressed another big chunk of of the technical errors. It seems youve been busy too! Thanks for all of your help and keep them coming.

• Were working on a treatment of channel presence; that will come in about a month or so.

We hope youre enjoying the rewrite so far. Happy reading!

One of the best parts of writing on this team is folks like Jos and Chris. They have insight that no one else has as the creators of Phoenix and Elixir. Unfortunately, when the confluence of the development of a major new feature like LiveView coincides with ElixirConf and Phoenix 1.4, the time between betas can be a little longer than wed like. We humbly apologize. But youll see that weve been busy!

• We added a new chapter: Chapter 12, . Its the most heavily revised chapter yet with changes to the dynamic supervision and new child specs added in Elixir 1.5.

• We addressed another big chunk of of the technical errors. It seems youve been busy too! Thanks for all of your help and keep them coming.

• We know we still owe you a treatment of channel presence; that will come in about a month or so.

We hope you enjoy reading about dynamic supervision. Its a powerful and interesting concept. Expect the next chapter in early November since we have one more major conference. GigCityElixir will have both Bruce and Chris, the primary contributors for the final chapters, indisposed, but we hope to see you there! The Southeast is particularly beautiful in the Fall. Who knows? We may even see some Fall colors.

Happy reading!

Thanks for all of the comments. Its what makes writing worthwhile. We have a great community.

• We added a new chapter: Chapter 10, . Its the core concept in Phoenix. Weve updated from models to contexts and sprinkled in a few new features.

• We addressed all of the technical errors. Thanks for all of your help and keep them coming!