Phoenix can implicitly render responses based off Accept header

[th0mas]

Phoenix can already implicitly render different responses based off the Accept header or through forcing a type through the put_accept plug.

def index(conn, _params) do
  doors = Access.list_doors()
  render(conn, :index, doors: doors)
end

Will render "index.json" or "index.html" implicitly.

See https://gist.github.com/chrismccord/31340f08d62de1457454.

In the Phoenix Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/Phoenix.Controller.html#render/3

Specifically;

template - which may be an atom or a string. If an atom, like :index, it will render a template with the same format as the one returned by get_format/1. For example, for an HTML request, it will render the "index.html" template. If the template is a string, it must contain the extension too, like "index.json"

[nelsonic]

Yeah, we read that Gist and it makes sense.
However we weren't able to get it working consistently in our demo app.
Also, we didn't want to have to create a .json template for each route handler.
If you can demo it based on the Accept header, please share. 👍