Book-programming-phoenix-liveview:b0.14-errata-p1-131

  • p2: we update a yet another element. Delete "a ".
  • p11: you might seeing – s/seeing/see/
  • p12: <imagedata fileref=”images/intro/phoenix-new.png … this fileref seems to be missing a closing double-quote, which breaks the parser and doesn’t insert the image.
  • p21: The code block in “Handle Events” doesn’t quite match the previous definition, in a trivial way ({n} vs <%= n %>)
  • p25: you should see the actual data that’s sent up to the browser when the user clicks a number – this is worded confusingly. That data is what’s sent //from// the browser to the server when the user clicks a number.
  • p27: the time/0 was not re-invokedthe time/0 function
  • p47: The :fetch_current_scope_for_user plug runs early in the browser pipeline, – the generator now adds it automatically as the last plug in the browser pipeline.
  • p48: Instead of looking up users by tokens in each LiveView, the scope is automatically available: – it’s not though, since we haven’t specified that /wrong requires an authenticated user in the router yet, so trying to add current_user here breaks the liveview. Is this just an example rather than a change we should make while following along?
  • p52: confirm_user/1 – this no longer seems to exist in the Accounts exports, as of Phoenix 1.8.1.
  • p58: plug(:put_root_layout, – this appears twice in the snippet, but with Phoenix 1.8.1 it only shows up once, in the browser pipeline.
  • p70: we can simplify the WrongLive’s own mount function, so that it looks like this: – this seems to be the exact same definition we had on page 67.
  • p72: If a logged in user visits the / route, make them redirect to the /guess route.
    • It was not obvious how to do this. I searched for a redirect function to use in router.ex, but couldn’t find one. The closest was forward which didn’t seem appropriate.
    • Instead, I tried adding a second function to PageController, and referencing that instead of :home in the redirect_if_user_is_authenticated route block. It would be good to have some “here’s how you could have done it” sections after the exercises.
  • p80: Notice the significant improvements in Phoenix 1.8’s generator output. – improvements compared to what? In a book written for Phoenix 1.8, it’s likely that almost no readers will remember what the generator output of older versions of Phoenix would look like.
  • p89: The Ecto.Changeset.cast/4 function filters the user data we pass into params.s/params/attrs
  • p93: Notice that each of them use the Repo module, => s/use/uses
  • p100: Whenever Catalog.validate_code/1 fails to return the :ok tuple, our code will blow up. – It’s Validator.validate_code/1 that can blow our code up this way. Catalog.validate_code/1 tries to pattern match on this result, and will throw an error. It never returns an {:ok, ...} tuple to apply_coupon_code/2.
  • p116: With just a hand full => handful
  • p131: This tell LiveViews/tell/tells