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Published 20 May

Handling Amount Fields in a Phoenix Application with Ecto Custom Types

In this tutorial, we will discuss a common problem faced in Elixir applications related to handling and storing formatted amount fields in a databas..

Published 06 May - 2022

Teams Feature with Phx.Gen.Auth

A very common feature in web applications, especially SAAS applications are the concept of teams where a user can have and belong to multiple teams...

Published 01 Jun - 2021

How to use Phoenix forms for embedded schema and JSONB

In this tutorial, I want to show you how you can setup form that stores the data in partly the columns in a database but also some of the fields in ..

Published 02 Sep - 2020

Table sorting with Ecto and LiveView

A very common or even mandatory feature in e-commerce stores is the ability to sort a list of products by attributes. This is easy enough and a good..

Published 31 Aug - 2020

Fuzzy find with Ecto in Phoenix LiveView

Fuzzy find is both a simple and a complex thing. Even though though it's simple to implement, its hard to get right from a UX perspective. Luckily, ..

Published 15 Feb - 2020
Updated 01 May - 2020

Create ghost loading cards in Phoenix LiveView

Unless you already didn't know, when a LieView component is mounted on a page, it runs the mount/2 function twice. One when the page is rendered fro..

Published 11 Feb - 2020
Updated 01 May - 2020

Add Tags with Ecto has_many, through in Phoenix - Tagging part 1

I want to add tags to products. And as usual there are a situation where a product can have many tags and a tag can belong to many products. Howeve..

Published 10 Feb - 2020
Updated 01 May - 2020

Add an use a JSONB field in Phoenix and Ecto

PostgreSQL has native support for objects stored as JSON as actually binary JSON (or JSONB). With JSONB format, you can add index do the column for ..

Published 03 Feb - 2020
Updated 01 May - 2020

Setup a has_many / belongs_to in Phoenix

Something I do in EVERY project is to setup some sort of relation between resources. And even though Phoenix comes with generators for migrations an..