Chat

• Elixir chat application to familiarize myself with phoenix & elixir
• Plan on building additional elixir real-time features off this repo

Stack

• Elixir
• Phoenix Framework
• Postgre

Current next Steps

• Figure out PostgreSQL implementation/installation for DB persistence

Helpful Reminders

• Creating a database schema to store chat history mix phx.gen.schema Message messages name:string message:string
  mix phx.gen.schema - the mix command to create a new schema (database table) Message - the singular name for record in our messages "collection" messages - the name of the collection (or database table) name:string - the name of the person sending a message, stored as a string. message:string - the message sent by the person, also stored as a string.

Design Justifications

• We are assuming that most chat apps save history so that new people joining the "channel" can see the history and people who are briefly "absent" can "catch up" on the history.

Additional/Random Notes & Resources

• Chat is technically deployable after steps 1-4, see -> Anonymous texting app with no history/trace: http://www.psstchat.com/.

To start your Phoenix server:

• Run mix setup to install and setup dependencies
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server or inside IEx with iex -S mix phx.server

Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.

Ready to run in production? Please check our deployment guides.

Learn more

• Official website: https://www.phoenixframework.org/
• Guides: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html
• Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix
• Forum: https://elixirforum.com/c/phoenix-forum
• Source: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix