Basic Authentication In Your Phoenix App

It’s easy when you use Plug

It turns out that implementing HTTP Basic Authentication in your Phoenix app is easy when you use plugs. Let’s first see how the plug itself works:

How (and when!) to store images in your database with Elixir & Phoenix

Many developers store images in Amazon S3, a Git repo, or in a filesystem. I’m storing mine directly in my PostgreSQL database. As it turns out, that’s the ideal approach to the problem I’m solving…