Exploring Plug: The Body Reader
Ever wondered why sometimes Plug.Conn.read_body/2 returns nil instead of returning the raw body of the request? Today we’ll examine why this happens and how to elegantly get around it. Plug crash course Before exploring why this happens, let’s take a step back and take a naive look on how Plug works. In its most basic sense, a plug is a transformation applied to a connection; a plug can be either a function, or a module that receives information about a request in the form of %Plug....
Understanding Phoenix Endpoint
This small article aims be to a rough introduction to how the Phoenix endpoint works. It assumes intermediate knowledge of Phoenix and Elixir. The endpoint is the boundary where all requests to your web application start. It is also the interface your application provides to the underlying web servers. https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/Phoenix.Endpoint.html While navigating through the documentation for Phoenix.Endpoint, the paragraph above caught my attention, it affirmed for me the importance of this module....