Geoffrey Lessel

Geoffrey Lessel is a developer with 20 years of experience. He’s seen the world of open source web development move from Perl scripts to PHP, to Ruby on Rails, to Elixir and Phoenix, and he has developed in each along the way. He loves to teach what he learns and has spoken at multiple Elixir conferences over the years. He blogs about Elixir and Phoenix at http://geoffreylessel.com.

books by Geoffrey Lessel

Phoenix in Action

  • April 2019
  • ISBN 9781617295041
  • 336 pages
  • printed in black & white

Phoenix in Action is an example-based book that teaches you to build production-quality web apps. You’ll handle business logic, database interactions, and app designs as you progressively create an online auction site. As you go, you’ll build everything from the core components to the real-time user interactions where Phoenix really shines.