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The course above was really interesting.
In a conventional MVC web framwork, you often start with database models, and the planning revolves around the database structure. With Phoenix, his advice is:
“We never put Ecto [database layer] in our web layer.”
Similar to the other book, the web framework is not the game — it’s just a web layer for an already completed game. Everything is completely decoupled, and the functionality isn’t a tangled mess.