I started building a system to better understand how Elixir works and to learn about Phoenix .

Phoenix is a framework for Elixir , the same way Rails is a framework for Ruby . Its mission is to be a productive framework that doesn't compromise on speed or maintainability.

Without further ado, I decided to build a simple CRUD in Elixir to track the books I've read. I used the following commands:

# Create the app. $ mix phx.new booklistx

# Enter the project cd booklistsx

# CRUD generator (Rails scaffold style) mix phx.gen.html Books Book books title:string

# Create the database and the books table mix ecto.create mix ecto.migrate

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I set the books listing as the app's root.

# lib/booklistx_web/router.ex

defmodule BooklistxWeb .…