Elixir & Erlang Resources

resources.md

Titles

1a. Programming Elixir 1.6 by Dave Thomas

1b. Learn Functional Programming with Elixir by Ulisses Almeida

2. Programming Phoenix 1.4 by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and Jose Valim

3. Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix by Lance Halvorsen

4. Metaprogramming Elixir by Chris McCord

Videos

• ElixirConf 2017 Building an Open Source Real-Time Forum w/Elixir & Elm
• ElixirConf 2019 Build an Elixir Team when No-One Knew Elixir
• ElixirConf EU 2019 Building Interactive Apps without Javascript
• ElixirConf 2017 Don't Write Macros but Learn How They Work

Guides & Docs

• Introduction to Elixir
• Phoenix Guides
• Awesome Elixir
• Official docs for Elixir, ExUnit, IEx, Logger, and Mix

Tooling

• Elixir Plugin for IntelliJ

• Elixir & VSCode

• Manage Elixir & Erlang installs

  tl;dr

  1. Install asdf
  2. asdf plugin add elixir && asdf plugin add erlang
  3. asdf install erlang 23.0.3 && asdf install elixir 1.10.4-otp-23 (this will take a little while)
  4. asdf global erlang 23.0.3 && asdf global elixir 1.10.4-otp-23

Frameworks

• Ecto - database wrapper and query generator for Elixir.
• OTP - Open Telecom Platform
• ExUnit - ExUnit Unit Test framework.

Deeper down the rabbit hole...

• Nerves Project Embedded & IoT coding w/Elixir
• Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good by Fred Hebert
• The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao
• Faults, Scaling, and Erlang Concurrency talk by Joe Armstrong @ Stanford
• Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay @ CodeMesh 2016
• Official Erlang docs