What are Phoenix channels?

Channels are a really exciting and powerful part of Phoenix that allow us to easily add soft-realtime features to our applications. Channels are based on a simple idea – sending and receiving messages . Senders broadcast messages about topics. Receivers subscribe to topics so that they can get those messages.

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What is channels Redis?

Redis Pub/Sub implements the messaging system where the senders (in redis terminology called publishers) sends the messages while the receivers (subscribers) receive them. The link by which the messages are transferred is called channel. In Redis, a client can subscribe any number of channels.

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What is a backend channel?

The channel backend, which is a combination of pluggable Python code and a datastore (e.g. Redis, or a shared memory segment) responsible for transporting messages . The workers, that listen on all relevant channels and run consumer code when a message is ready.

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