Phoenix (Phoenix v1.6.0-rc.0) View Source

This is the documentation for the Phoenix project.

By default, Phoenix applications depend on the following packages across these categories.

General

  • Ecto - a language integrated query and database wrapper

  • ExUnit - Elixir's built-in test framework

  • Phoenix - the Phoenix web framework (these docs)

  • Phoenix PubSub - a distributed pub/sub system with presence support

  • Phoenix HTML - conveniences for working with HTML in Phoenix

  • Phoenix View - a set of functions for building Phoenix.View and working with template languages such as Elixir's own EEx

  • Phoenix LiveView - rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML

  • Phoenix LiveDashboard - real-time performance monitoring and debugging tools for Phoenix developers

  • Plug - a specification and conveniences for composable modules in between web applications

  • Telemetry Metrics - common interface for defining metrics based on Telemetry events

  • Gettext - Internationalization and localization through gettext

To get started, see our overview guides.

Link to this section Summary

Functions

Returns the configured JSON encoding library for Phoenix.

Returns the :plug_init_mode that controls when plugs are initialized.

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Returns the configured JSON encoding library for Phoenix.

To customize the JSON library, including the following in your config/config.exs:

config :phoenix, :json_library, Jason

Returns the :plug_init_mode that controls when plugs are initialized.

We recommend to set it to :runtime in development for compilation time improvements. It must be :compile in production (the default).

This option is passed as the :init_mode to Plug.Builder.compile/3.