Introducing User Accounts and Sessions

In the previous chapter, we talked quite a bit about getting the introductory structures in place to handle the database side of our application. Now that we have a very strong understanding of contexts, schemas, and how they all tie into our Phoenix application with Ecto, we're going to start gluing all of this together and build another key component of our web application: creating user accounts!

Think about nearly every web application that you've used in the last year. Nearly every application has had some way to tie that information back to you in some way or another. Each app has provided a way for you to tie your data to yourself and provide some form of ownership of the data that you're putting ...

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