🔗 Data to Responses

The introduction of HEEx in Phoenix 1.7 and the shift toward rendering HTML with function components brought significant changes to how data is transformed into HTTP responses in Phoenix. However, most of these changes were at the surface level. Under the hood, many mechanisms remained unchanged and are still largely backwards compatible. In this blog post, I’ll explore some of Phoenix’s lower-level primitives to clarify how they work, even as the interfaces for using them evolve.