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We’ve accomplished quite a bit. We’ve built some basic web application features in a short time. We used Plug to build pipelines of functions that let us build organized, DRY code. We used Ecto to deal with our relational database in a functional way, favoring explicitness by separating the model from the repository. Phoenix wired it all together into a streamlined workflow, with live reloading, HTML support, and more.

Everything we’ve done so far highlights how well Phoenix encourages beautiful and maintainable applications. Those improvements bring a slightly different look to how people have done web development for the last ten years, but nothing you’ve seen up to now is drastically different from what you already ...

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