Requests enter your app through an Endpoint, and your app usually will have only one. We'll look at this chain of Elixir Plugs, which ends at the Router, the module ultimately responsible for delegating request-handling to an appropriate Controller.

Plugs are at the core of Phoenix, and they're a relatively simple and approachable concept: things that accept a connection as an argument, and return a slightly-modified connection.

Chain a few plugs together, and it's easy to see how basic building blocks start to assemble into a complete application.

Add a new page to your app, following the existing example set up in your PageController

Build a Plug that interrupts the pipeline (returning a HTTP error for an incoming request) if we ever request a SOAP XML document (Content-Type: application/soap+xml)

Now that we understand how to leverage Phoenix's routing layer, let's take a closer look at Controllers: the modules ultimately responsible for responding to a request.

In a welcome contrast to other web frameworks, Phoenix's view layer is exceedingly easy to understand and use.

Judging by how easy it is to keep views simple, performant, and easy to manage, It's clear that the hard-learned lessons from older frameworks have paid off.

We'll pass some data from the Phoenix controller layer to the view layer, and leverage view functions to do some light formatting & massaging.