Getting started with Elixir

Phoenix is a web framework build on Elixir, which runs on the Erlang VM. Why check out another web framework & language?

IDK... the grass is always greener. There are new ideas in new frameworks. Maybe one will fit more with my personal development opinions.

So here we are. So far I like it. Both Elixir and Phoenix. Have only started some very basic hobby apps. Elixir is very Ruby looking, but pretty different in most regards. It's functional for one big one. And immutable.

Install

brew install elixir

Mix

Like Lein & Rake

mix help

mix new PROJECT_NAME --sup

HEXs

Like Gems https://hex.pm is the place to find then and see how popular they are.

List of Elixir libs

CRON scheduler

Tests

• mix_test_watch: auto run tests
• mock: mocking lib
• credo: linter
• DocTests - tests in the documentation.

Web development

mix phx.new PROJECT_NAME

• Phoenix
• Pug templates
• Pug reference
• Customize Generators - I did this to use PUG templates.
• Nested Resources

References

Slack: elixir.slackin

• http://elixir-lang.org
• https://github.com/itsgreggreg/elixir_quick_reference
• https://github.com/christopheradams/elixir_style_guide
• http://exercism.io/

VIM

Plug 'elixir-editors/vim-elixir'
Plug 'slashmili/alchemist.vim'