Chris McCord

Tutorial: Phoenix – Getting Realtime with Channels

Come level-up on Phoenix's most exciting features while gaining insights from its creator! Together, we'll use Phoenix Channels and Presence to build a highly interactive, collaborative application that works seamlessly across a distributed infrastructure. This hands-on tutorial will take you step-by-step from a blank project to a usable application. Along the way, you'll gain insights into Phoenix's distributed Pub-Sub layer and see all the tricks to getting the most out this exciting feature-set.

Tutorial objectives:

• A tutorial format that welcomes open-dialogue with Phoenix's creator. The best learning happens with interactive Q & A
• Hands-on, interactive group pairing as we build a working application throughout the day
• Comprehensive coverage of Phoenix channels
• Complete use of Phoenix.Presence to detect users online in a distributed application
• Insights into Phoenix.PubSub and distributed messages

Target audience:

• Intermediate Elixir programmers with basic Phoenix exposure.

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