There are two ways to start up the Phoenix server, and now that the application is set up and the database is there to support our application, we can move on to actually running it! The two different ways to run your application are either via Mix phx.server or in the IEx console. In the context of your application requiring debugging support via IEx, you need -S Mix phx.server. As a general rule, I only run my application in a local development environment through IEx. This allows you to get interactive debugging via IEx.pry, as well as the ability to perform things like Ecto queries or test calling public functions in modules.
Remember when we talked about the interactive help functions that ...
