Realtime

Phoenix Channels

The realtime layer of the Elixir Phoenix Framework — soft-realtime channels, presence, and pub/sub built on the BEAM VM. Channels carry WebSocket (or long-poll fallback) topics with broadcast/subscribe semantics; Phoenix Presence implements CRDT-based distributed presence tracking.

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Documentation
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html

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Portal
https://www.phoenixframework.org/
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GitHubOrganization
https://github.com/phoenixframework

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: realtime:phoenix-channels
name: Phoenix Channels
description: The realtime layer of the Elixir Phoenix Framework — soft-realtime channels, presence, and
  pub/sub built on the BEAM VM. Channels carry WebSocket (or long-poll fallback) topics with broadcast/subscribe
  semantics; Phoenix Presence implements CRDT-based distributed presence tracking.
humanURL: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html
tags:
- Elixir
- Phoenix
- WebSocket
- Channels
- Open-Source
tags_raw:
- Elixir
- Phoenix
- WebSocket
- Channels
- Open Source
properties:
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.phoenixframework.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/phoenixframework