-
Enhancements [ChannelTest] Add
connect/2
helper for test UserSocket handlers -
Bug fixes
- [Router] Fix pipe_through not respeting halting when piping through mulitple pipelines
See these 0.16.x
to 0.17.0
upgrade instructions to bring your existing apps up to speed.
-
Enhancements
- [Endpoint] Allow
check_origin
andforce_ssl
to be config in transports and fallback to endpoint config - [Transport] Log when
check_origin
fails
- [Endpoint] Allow
-
Bug fixes
- [Mix] Properly humanize names in the generator
-
Deprecations
- [Endpoint]
render_errors: [default_format: "html"]
is deprecated in favor ofrender_errors: [accepts: ["html"]]
- [Endpoint]
-
Backward incompatible changes
- [Controller] The "format" param for overriding the accept header has been renamed to "_format" and is no longer injected into the params when parsing the Accept headers. Use
get_format/1
to access the negotiated format. - [ChannelTest] In order to test channels, one must now explicitly create a socket and pass it to
subscribe_and_join
. For example,subscribe_and_join(MyChannel, "my_topic")
should now becomesocket() |> subscribe_and_join(MyChannel, "my_topic")
orsocket("user:id", %{user_id: 13}) |> subscribe_and_join(MyChannel, "my_topic")
.
- [Controller] The "format" param for overriding the accept header has been renamed to "_format" and is no longer injected into the params when parsing the Accept headers. Use
- JavaScript client bug fixes
- Pass socket params on reconnect
See these 0.15.x
to 0.16.0
upgrade instructions to bring your existing apps up to speed.
-
Enhancements
- [Brunch] No longer ship with
sass-brunch
dependency - [Endpoint] Add
force_ssl
support - [Mix] Allow
phoenix.gen.*
tasks templates to be customized by the target application by placing copies atpriv/template/phoenix.gen.*
- [Mix] Support
mix phoenix.gen.model Comment comment post_id:references:posts
- [Mix] Add
mix phoenix.gen.secret
- [Router] Provide
put_secure_browser_headers/2
and use it by default in the browser pipeline - [Socket] Automatically check origins on socket transports
- [Token] Add
Phoenix.Token
for easy signing and verification of tokens
- [Brunch] No longer ship with
-
Bug fixes
- [Cowboy] Ensure we print proper URL when starting the server with both http and https
- [Digest] Do not gzip binary files like png and jpg. Default only to known text files and make them configurable via
config :phoenix, :gzippable_exts, ~w(.txt .html .js .css)
and so on
-
Backward incompatible changes
- [Controller]
jsonp/3
function has been removed in favor of theplug :allow_jsonp
- [Controller]
controller_template/1
has been renamed toview_template/1
- [HTML] Use
phoenix_html ~> 2.0
which includes its ownphoenix_html.js
version - [Socket]
:origins
transport option has been renamed to:check_origin
- [View]
render_one
andrender_many
no longer inflect the view module from the model in favor of explicitly passing the view
- [Controller]
-
JavaScript client backwards incompatible changes
- Socket params are now passed to
socket.connect()
instead of an option on the constructor. - Socket params are no longer merged as default params for channel params. Use
connect/2
on the server to wire up default channel assigns. - Socket
chan
has been renamed tochannel
, for examplesocket.channel("some:topic")
- Socket params are now passed to
See these 0.14.x
to 0.15.0
upgrade instructions to bring your existing apps up to speed.
-
Enhancements
- [Socket] Introduce
Phoenix.Socket
behaviour that allows socket authentication, termination, and default channel socket assigns - [PubSub] Use ETS dispatch table for increased broadcast performance
- [Channel] Use event intercept for increased broadcast performance
- [Socket] Introduce
-
Backward incompatible changes
- [Router] channel routes are now defined on a socket handler module instead of the Router
- [Router]
socket
mounts have been moved from the Router to the Endpoint - [Channel]
handle_out
callbacks now require explicit event intercept for callback to be invoked, withPhoenix.Channel.intercept/1
- [Transports] WebSocket and LongPoll transport configuration has been moved from mix config to the UserSocket
-
JavaScript client backwards incompatible changes
Phoenix.LongPoller
has been renamed toPhoenix.LongPoll
- A new client version is required to accommodate server changes
See these 0.13.x
to 0.14.0
upgrade instructions to bring your existing apps up to speed.
-
Enhancements
- [Phoenix.HTML] Update to phoenix_html 1.1.0 which raises on missing assigns
- [Controller] Add
jsonp/2
for handling JSONP responses - [Channel] Enhance logging with join information
- [Router] Add
forward
macro to forward a requests to a Plug, invoking the pipeline
-
Javascript client enhancements
- Add socket params to apply default, overridable params to all channel params.
- Enchance logging
-
Bug fixes
- [Channel] Fix xdomain content type not being treated as JSON requests
-
Javascript client backwards incompatible changes
-
logger
option toPhoenix.Socket
, now uses three arguments, ie:logger: (kind, msg, data) => { console.log(
${kind}: ${msg}, data) }
-
-
Backward incompatible changes
- [Controller]
plug :action
is now called automatically - [Endpoint] The
:format
option in:render_errors
has been renamed to:default_format
- [PubSub.Redis] The Redis PubSub adapter has been extracted into its own project. If using redis, see the project's readme for instructions
- [View] The default template
web/templates/layout/application.html.eex
has been renamed toapp.html.eex
- [Controller]
See these 0.13.0
to 0.13.1
upgrade instructions to bring your existing apps up to speed.
- Enhancements
- [Channel] Add
phoenix.new.channel Channel topic
- [Channel] Add
Phoenix.ChannelCase
- [Controller] Assert changes in the repository on generated controller tests
- [Endpoint] Add
static_url
to endpoint to configure host, port and more for static urls - [phoenix.new] Generate a channel case for new apps
- [phoenix.new] Improve installation workflow by asking to install and fetch dependencies once
- [phoenix.new] Add
errors_on/1
to generated model case
- [Channel] Add
See these 0.12.x
to 0.13.0
upgrade instructions to bring your existing apps up to speed.
-
Enhancements
- [Channel] Allow router helpers to work in channels by passing a socket (instead of connection), for example:
user_path(socket, :index)
- [Channel] Support replies in
join/3
- [HTML]
Phoenix.HTML
has been extracted to its own project. You need to explicitly depend on it by adding{:phoenix_html, "~> 1.0"}
todeps
in yourmix.exs
file - [HTML]
safe/1
in views is deprecated in favor ofraw/1
- [Generators] Allow
belongs_to
in model generator which supports associations and indexes
- [Channel] Allow router helpers to work in channels by passing a socket (instead of connection), for example:
-
Bug fixes
- [HTML]
select
no longer inverses the key and values in the given options - [phoenix.new] Do not run
deps.get
if there is no Hex
- [HTML]
-
Backward incompatible changes
- [Channel] To refuse joining a channel,
join/3
now requires{:error, reason}
- [Channel] To refuse joining a channel,
-
Javascript client backward incompatible changes
-
channel instances are now created from the
socket
-
channel joins are now called explicitly off channel instances
-
channel onClose now only triggered on explicit client
leave
or server:stop
-
Examples:
let socket = new Phoenix.Socket("/ws") let chan = socket.chan("rooms:123", {}) chan.join().receive("ok", ({resp} => ...).receive("error", ({reason}) => ...)
-
See these 0.11.x
to 0.12.0
upgrade instructions to bring your existing apps up to speed.
-
Enhancements
- [Channel] Leaving the channel or closing the client will now trigger terminate on the channel, regardless of traping exits, with reasons
{:shutdown, :left}
and{:shutdown, :closed}
respectively - [Controller] Support
:namespace
option in controllers in order to use proper layout in namespaced applications - [Controller] Add
controller_template/1
to lookup the template rendered from the controller - [Generators] Add
phoenix.gen.json
- [Generators] Allow models to be skipped on
phoenix.gen.json
andphoenix.gen.html
generators - [Generators] Generate test files in
phoenix.gen.html
,phoenix.gen.json
andphoenix.gen.model
- [HTML] Add
search_input/3
,telephone_input/3
,url_input/3
andrange_input/3
toPhoenix.HTML.Form
- [Installer] Add the generated
config/prod.secret.exs
file to.gitignore
by default - [Static] Add a
mix phoenix.digest
task to run during deploys to generate digest filenames and gzip static files. A new configuration calledcache_static_manifest
was added which should be set to "priv/static/manifest.json" in production which will preload the manifest file generated by the mix task in order to point to the digested files when generating static paths - [Test] Add
html_response/2
,json_response/2
,text_response/2
andresponse/2
to aid connection-based testing - [View] Add
render_existing/3
to render a template only if it exists without raising an error - [View] Add
render_many/4
andrender_one/4
to make it easier to render collection and optional data respctivelly
- [Channel] Leaving the channel or closing the client will now trigger terminate on the channel, regardless of traping exits, with reasons
-
Bug fixes
- [Channel] Ensure channels are terminated when WebSocket and LongPoller transports exit normally
- [Installer] Declare missing applications in generated phoenix.new app
- [Installer] No longer generate encryption salt in generated phoenix.new app
- [Installer] Generate proper credentials in phoenix.new for different databases
- [Mix] Ensure the serve endpoints configuration is persistent
- [Router] Ensure URL helpers know how to call
to_param
on query parameters
See these 0.10.x
to 0.11.0
upgrade instructions to bring your existing apps up to speed.
-
Javascript client enhancements
- Joins are now synchronous, removing the prior issues of client race conditions
- Events can now be replied to from the server, for request/response style messaging
- Clients can now detect and react to individual channel errors and terminations
-
Javascript client backward incompatible changes
- The
Socket
instance no long connects automatically. You must explicitly callconnect()
-
close()
has been renamed todisconnect()
-
send
has been renamed topush
to unify client and server messaging commands - The
join
API has changed to use synchronous messaging. Check the upgrade guide for details
- The
-
Backwards incompatible changes
-
[Generator]
mix phoenix.gen.resource
renamed tomix phoenix.gen.html
-
[Channel]
reply
has been renamed topush
to better signify we are only push a message down the socket, not replying to a specific request -
[Channel] The return signatures for
handle_in/3
andhandle_out/3
have changed, ie:handle_in(event :: String.t, msg :: map, Socket.t) :: {:noreply, Socket.t} | {:reply, {status :: atom, response :: map}, Socket.t} | {:reply, status :: atom, Socket.t} | {:stop, reason :: term, Socket.t} | {:stop, reason :: term, reply :: {status :: atom, response :: map}, Socket.t} | {:stop, reason :: term, reply :: status :: atom, Socket.t} handle_out(event :: String.t, msg :: map, Socket.t) :: {:ok, Socket.t} | {:noreply, Socket.t} | {:error, reason :: term, Socket.t} | {:stop, reason :: term, Socket.t}
-
[Channel] The
leave/2
callback has been removed. If you need to cleanup/teardown when a client disconnects, trap exits and handle interminate/2
, ie:def join(topic, auth_msg, socket) do Process.flag(:trap_exit, true) {:ok, socket} end def terminate({:shutdown, :client_left}, socket) do # client left intentionally end def terminate(reason, socket) do # terminating for another reason (connection drop, crash, etc) end
-
[HTML]
use Phoenix.HTML
no longer imports controller functions. You must addimport Phoenix.Controller, only: [get_flash: 2]
manually to your views or yourweb.ex
-
[Endpoint] Code reloader must now be configured in your endpoint instead of Phoenix. Therefore, upgrade your
config/dev.exs
replacingconfig :phoenix, :code_reloader, true
by
config :your_app, Your.Endpoint, code_reloader: true
-
[Endpoint] Live reloader is now a dependency instead of being shipped with Phoenix. Please add
{:phoenix_live_reload, "~> 0.3"}
to your dependencies -
[Endpoint] The
live_reload
configuration has changed to allow a:url
option and work with:patterns
instead of paths:config :your_app, Your.Endpoint, code_reloader: true, live_reload: [ url: "ws://localhost:4000", patterns: [~r{priv/static/.*(js|css|png|jpeg|jpg|gif)$}, ~r{web/views/.*(ex)$}, ~r{web/templates/.*(eex)$}]]
-
[Endpoint] Code and live reloader must now be explicitly plugged in your endpoint. Wrap them inside
lib/your_app/endpoint.ex
in acode_reloading?
block:if code_reloading? do plug Phoenix.LiveReloader plug Phoenix.CodeReloader end
-
-
Enhancements
- [Endpoint] Allow the default format used when rendering errors to be customized in the
render_views
configuration - [HTML] Add
button/2
function toPhoenix.HTML
- [HTML] Add
textarea/3
function toPhoenix.HTML.Form
- [Controller]
render/3
andrender/4
allows a view to be specified directly.
- [Endpoint] Allow the default format used when rendering errors to be customized in the
-
Bug fixes
- [HTML] Fix out of order hours, minutes and days in date/time select
See these 0.9.x
to 0.10.0
upgrade instructions to bring your existing apps up to speed.
-
Enhancements
- [CLI] Make
phoenix.new
in sync withmix new
by making the project diretory optional - [Controller] Add
scrub_params/2
which makes it easy to remove and prune blank string values from parameters (usually sent by forms) - [Endpoint] Runtime evaluation of
:port
configuration is now supported. When given a tuple like{:system, "PORT"}
, the port will be referenced fromSystem.get_env("PORT")
at runtime as a workaround for releases where environment specific information is loaded only at compile-time - [HTML] Provide
tag/2
,content_tag/2
andcontent_tag/3
helpers to make tag generation easier and safer - [Router] Speed up router compilation
- [CLI] Make
-
Backwards incompatible changes
- [Plug] Update to Plug 0.10.0 which moves CSRF tokens from cookies back to sessions. To avoid future bumps on the road, a
get_csrf_token/0
function has been added to controllers - [PubSub] Remove the option
:options
from:pubsub
. Just define the options alongside the pubsub configuration - [Pubsub] Require the
:name
option when configuring a pubsub adapter
- [Plug] Update to Plug 0.10.0 which moves CSRF tokens from cookies back to sessions. To avoid future bumps on the road, a
See these 0.8.x
to 0.9.0
upgrade instructions to bring your existing apps up to speed.
-
Enhancements
- [PubSub/Channels] The PubSub layer now supports Redis, and is opened up to other third party adapters. It still defaults to PG2, but other adapters are convenient for non-distributed deployments or durable messaging.
-
Bug fixes
- [Plug] Ensure session and flash are serializable to JSON
-
Backwards incompatible changes
- [PubSub] The new PubSub system requires the adapter's configuration to be added to your Endpoint's mix config.
- [PubSub] The
Phoenix.PubSub
API now requires a registered server name, iePhoenix.PubSub.broadcast(MyApp.PubSub, "foo:bar", %{baz: :bang})
- [Channel] Channel broadcasts from outside a socket connection now must be called from an Endpoint module directly, ie:
MyApp.Endpoint.broadcast("topic", "event", %{...})
- [Channel] The error return signature has been changed from
{:error, socket, reason}
to{:error, reason, socket}
- [Plug]
Plug.CSRFProtection
now uses a cookie instead of session and expects a"_csrf_token"
parameter instead of"csrf_token"
- [Router/Controller] The
destroy
action has been renamed todelete
, update your controller actions and url builders accordingly
See these 0.7.x
to 0.8.0
upgrade instructions to bring your existing apps up to speed.
-
Enhancements
- [Router]
protect_from_forgery
has been added to the Router for CSRF protection. This is automatically plugged in new projects. See this example for plugging in your existing router pipeline(s) - [Router] New
socket
macro allows scoping channels to different transports and mounting multiple socket endpoints - [Channels] The "topic" abstraction has been refined to be a simple string identifier to provide more direct integration with the
Phoenix.PubSub
layer - [Channels] Channels can now intercept outgoing messages and customize the broadcast for a socket-by-socket customization, message dropping, etc
- [Channels] A channel can be left by returning
{:leave, socket}
from a channel callback to unsubscribe from the channel - [Channels] Channel Serializer can now use binary protocol over websockets instead of just text
- [Endpoint] Allow the reloadable paths to be configured in the endpoint
- [Mix] Allow the code generation namespace to be configured with the
:app_namespace
option - [Mix] Allow
:reloadable_paths
in Endpoint configuration to reload directories other than"web"
in development
- [Router]
-
Bug Fixes
- [Channel] Fix WebSocket heartbeat causing unnecessary
%Phoenix.Socket{}
's to be tracked and leave errors on disconnect - [Mix] Ensure Phoenix can serve and code reload inside umbrella apps
- [Channel] Fix WebSocket heartbeat causing unnecessary
-
Backwards incompatible changes
- [Endpoint] Endpoints should now be explicitly started in your application supervision tree. Just add
supervisor(YourApp.Endpoint, [])
to your supervision tree inlib/your_app.ex
mix phoenix.start
was renamed tomix phoenix.server
- [Endpoint] The
YourApp.Endpoint.start/0
function was removed. You can simply remove it from yourtest/test_helper.ex
file - [Router] Generated named paths now expect a conn arg. For example,
MyApp.Router.Helpers.page_path(conn, :show, "hello")
instead ofMyApp.Router.Helpers.page_path(:show, "hello")
- [Controller]
Phoenix.Controller.Flash
has been removed in favor offetch_flash/2
,get_flash/2
, andput_flash/2
functions onPhoenix.Controller
- [Router]
Phoenix.Router.Socket
has been removed in favor of newPhoenix.Router.socket/2
macro. - [Router] The
channel
macro now requires a topic pattern to be used to match incoming channel messages to a channel handler. SeePhoenix.Router.channel/2
for details. - [Channel] The
event/3
callback has been renamed tohandle_in/3
and the argument order has changed todef handle_in("some:event", msg, socket)
- [Channel] Channel callback return signatures have changed and now require
{:ok, socket} | {:leave, socket| | {:error, socket, reason}
.terminate/2
andhibernate/2
have also been removed.
- [Endpoint] Endpoints should now be explicitly started in your application supervision tree. Just add
-
Enhancements
- [Mix] Update Plug to
0.9.0
. You can now remove the Plug git dep from yourmix.exs
.
- [Mix] Update Plug to
-
Bug fixes
- [Endpoint] Ensure CodeReloader is removed fron Endpoint when disabled
- Bug fixes
- [Phoenix] Include Plug dep in new project generation since it's a github dep until next Plug release.
See these 0.6.x
to 0.7.0
upgrade instructions to bring your existing apps up to speed.
-
Enhancements
- [Endpoint] Introduce the concept of endpoints which removes some of the responsibilities from the router
- [Endpoint] Move configuration from the :phoenix application to the user own OTP app
-
Bug fixes
- [Router] Fix a bug where the error rendering layer was not picking JSON changes
- [CodeReloader] Fix a bug where the code reloader was unable to recompile when the router could not compile
-
Backwards incompatible changes
- [I18n]
Linguist
has been removed as a dependency, and anI18n
module is no longer generated in your project - [View]
ErrorsView
has been renamed toErrorView
, update yourMyApp.ErrorsView
accordingly - [Controller]
html/2
,json/2
,text/2
,redirect/2
andrender/3
no longer halt automatically - [Router] Configuration is no longer stored in the router but in the application endpoint. The before pipeline was also removed and moved to the endpoint itself
- [I18n]
- Bug fixes
- [Mix] Fix phoenix dep reference in new project generator
- Enhancements
- [Controller] Allow sensitive parameters to be filtered from logs
- [Router] Add ability for routes to be scoped by hostname via the :host option
- [Router] Add
Plug.Debugger
that shows helpful error pages in case of failures - [Router] Add
Phoenix.Router.RenderErrors
which dispatches to a view for rendering in case of crashes - [Router] Log which pipelines were triggered during a request
- [Channel] Allows custom serializers to be configured for WebSocket Transport
See the 0.5.x
to 0.6.0
upgrade instructions for upgrading your
existing applications.
-
Enhancements
- [Controller] Support
put_view/2
to configure which view to use when rendering in the controller - [Controller] Support templates as an atom in
Phoenix.Controller.render/3
as a way to explicitly render templates based on the request format - [Controller] Split paths from external urls in
redirect/2
- [Controller]
json/2
automatically encodes the data to JSON by using the registered:format_encoders
- [Controller]
html/2
,json/2
,text/2
,redirect/2
andrender/3
now halt automatically - [Controller] Add
accepts/2
for content negotiation - [Controller] Add
put_layout_formats/2
andlayout_formats/1
to configure and read which formats have a layout when rendering - [View] Assigns are always guaranteed to be maps
- [View] Add support to
format_encoders
that automatically encodes rendered templates. This means a "user.json" template only needs to return a map (or any structure encodable to JSON) and it will be automatically encoded to JSON by Phoenix - [View] Add a .exs template engine
- [Channel] Add a
Transport
contract for custom Channel backends - [Channel] Add a
LongPoller
transport with automatic LP fallback inphoenix.js
- [phoenix.js] Add long-polling support with automatic LP fallback for older browsers
- [Controller] Support
-
Deprecations
- [Controller]
html/3
,json/3
,text/3
andredirect/3
were deprecated in favor of usingput_status/2
- [Controller]
redirect(conn, url)
was deprecated in favor ofredirect(conn, to: url)
- [Controller]
-
Backwards incompatible changes
- [Controller] Passing a string to render without format in the
controller, as in
render(conn, "show")
no longer works. You should either make the format explicitrender(conn, "show.html")
or use an atomrender(conn, :show)
to dynamically render based on the format - [View] Using
:within
was renamed in favor of:layout
for rendering with layouts - [View] Your application should now directly use Phoenix.View in
its main view and specify further configuration in the
using(...)
section - [View] Template engines now should implement compile and simply return the quoted expression of the function body instead of the quoted expression of the render function
- [Router]
PUT
route generation for the:update
action has been dropped in favor ofPATCH
, butPUT
still matches requests to maintain compatibility with proxies. - [Router] Router no longer defines default :browser and :api pipelines
- [Controller] Passing a string to render without format in the
controller, as in
-
Bug fixes
- [Router] Generate correct route for helper path on root
-
Enhancements
- [Router] Named helpers are now automatically generated for every route based on the controller name
- [Router] Named helpers have been optimized to do as little work as possible at runtime
- [Router] Support multiple pipelines at the router level
- [Channels] The
phoenix.js
channel client now sends a configurable heartbeat every 30s to maintain connections
-
Deprecations
- [Controller]
assign_private
is deprecated in favor ofput_private
- [Controller]
assign_status
is deprecated in favor ofput_status
- [Controller]
-
Backwards incompatible changes
- [Controller] Remove default, injected aliases:
Flash
,JSON
- [Controller] Controllers now require
plug :action
to be explicitly invoked - [Router]
*path
identifiers in routers are now returned as a list - [Router] Named helpers are now defined in a explicit module nested
to your router. For example, if your router is named
MyApp.Router
, the named helpers will be available atMyApp.Router.Helpers
- [Router]
session_secret
configuration is deprecated in favor ofsecret_key_base
- [Router] Plugs can now only be defined inside pipelines. All routers now need to explicitly declare which pipeline they want to use
- [Router] Router configuration was revamped, static configuration
has been moved into
:static
, session configuration into:session
, parsers configuration into:parsers
, the http server configuration has been moved into:http
, the https configuration into:https
and the URI information for generating URIs into:uri
- [CodeReloaer] Code reloading now requires the
:phoenix
compiler to be added to the list of compilers in yourmix.exs
project config, ie:compilers: [:phoenix] ++ Mix.compilers
. Additionally, thePhoenix.CodeReloader.reload!
invocation should be removed from yourtest_helper.exs
for applications generated on0.4.x
. - [Topic]
Phoenix.Topic
has been renamed toPhoenix.PubSub
. If you were calling into the topic layer directly, update your module references.
- [Controller] Remove default, injected aliases:
- Bug fixes
- [Project Generation] Fix project template dependencies pointing to incorrect phoenix and elixir versions
-
Enhancements
- [Controller] Controllers are now Plugs and can be plugged as a "second layer" plug stack from the Router plug stack
- [Controller] Elixir Logger Integration - Improved request logger, durations, params, etc
- [Controller] Custom 404/500 page handling, details
- [Controller] Ability to halt Plug stacks with Plug 0.7.0
halt/1
- [Controller] Add
assign_layout/2
andassign_status/2
- [Controller] Flash messages for one-time message support across redirects
- [View] Internationalization support
- [View] New
Template.Engine
behaviour for third-party template engines. See PhoenixHaml for haml support via Calliope. render/2
can be explicitly plugged for automatic rendering of actions based on action name- [Channel] Assign API for Sockets allows ephemeral state to be stored on the multiplexed socket, similar to conn assigns
- [Config] Add
proxy_port
Router config option for deployments where public facing port differs from local port - [Router] Add nested generated
Helpers
module to Routers for easy imports of named route helpers, ieimport MyApp.Router.Helpers
-
Bug fixes
- Various bug fixes and improvements
-
Backwards incompatible changes
- [Config] ExConf Configuration has been replaced by Mix Config
- Directory and naming conventions have changed. A
web/
directory now lives at root of the project and holds routers, controllers, channels, views & templates, where allweb/
files are recompiled by the code reloader during development. Modules that cannot be simply recompiled in process are placed in lib as normal and require a server restart to take effect. Follow this guide for upgrade steps from 0.3.x. - Naming conventions now use singular form for module names, directory names, and named route helpers
- [Router] Named route helpers have been reworked to use single function name with pattern matched arguments. See the readme examples
- [Controller]
layout: nil
render option has been replaced byassign_layout(conn, :none)
- [Plugs]
Plugs.JSON
now adds parsed params under "_json" key when the JSON object is an array
- Enhancements
- Various performance improvements
-
Enhancements
- Add Precompiled EEx Templating Engine and View layer
- Add JSON Plug parser
- Update Plug to 0.5.2 with Cookie Session support
- URL helpers ie,
Router.page_path
, now properly encode nested query string params
-
Bug fixes
- Auto template compilation has been fixed for Elixir 0.14.2
@external_resource
changes
- Auto template compilation has been fixed for Elixir 0.14.2
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Backwards incompatible changes
- Controller action arity has changed. All actions now receive the
Plug conn and params as arguments, ie
def show(conn, %{"id" => id})
- Channel and Topic
reply
andbroadcast
functions now require a map instead of an arbitrary dict
- Controller action arity has changed. All actions now receive the
Plug conn and params as arguments, ie