Programming Phoenix

Coding Views

This is your second pass through this process. The first time, you built a Hello, World style feature, one with a controller, view, and template. Now it’s time for the more detailed explanation that you were promised earlier. In many other web frameworks, the terms view and template are often used synonymously. It’s enough for users to know that when a controller finishes a task, a view is somehow rendered.

In Phoenix, the terminology is a little more explicit. A view is a module containing rendering functions that convert data into a format the end user will consume, like HTML or JSON. You can write such functions as you would any other Elixir function. Those rendering functions can also be defined from templates. A template