Developing With Elixir (Pragmatic Studio)

Go ahead and ping @mikeclark and @NicoleClark at the studio’s site… they are super nice people. If they don’t have updates already, they might be happy to take yours and add them to the course notes.

Answering myself

For Full-Stack GraphQL with Absinthe, Phoenix, and React

So far we have:

elixir: "~> 1.5",

  defp deps do
    [
      {:phoenix, "~> 1.4.3"},
      {:phoenix_pubsub, "~> 1.1"},
      {:phoenix_ecto, "~> 4.0"},
      {:ecto_sql, "~> 3.0"},
      {:postgrex, ">= 0.0.0"},
      {:gettext, "~> 0.11"},
      {:jason, "~> 1.0"},
      {:plug_cowboy, "~> 2.0"},
      {:absinthe, "~> 1.4.2"},
      {:absinthe_plug, "~> 1.4.0"},
      {:absinthe_phoenix, "~> 1.4.0"},
      {:pbkdf2_elixir, "~> 1.0"},
      {:cors_plug, "~> 2.0"},
      {:dataloader, "~> 1.0.6"}
    ]
  end

Meaning you get the following deprecation warnings:

warning: :simple_one_for_one strategy is deprecated, please use DynamicSupervisor instead

Had the same issue with Dave Thomas’s course

Will update as I progress in the course

Anybody know which versions of Elixir/Phoenix the Pragmatic Studio courses support, specifically Elixir & OTP and Full-Stack GraphQLwith Absinthe, Phoenix, and React ?

Multi-Player Game with Elixir, Phoenix, Vue & Elm uses Phoenix 1.4 which is slightly outdated as 1.6 is on its way out (and a few important features came out in 1.5)

If the courses use outdated versions, did anyone encounter any difficulties?

I just finished the course and it is great. They did an amazing job explaining most of what you would want to know.
I hope they do more courses on Elixir and Phoenix. I started the one on Bingo game development and it looks interesting.

You should report that directly to the Pragmatic Studio:

Here russian guys stole the course and resale it for profit :3

I watched that video further and they explained the same in the video. Thank you @DevotionGeo and @easco!

I don’t use Sublime for Elixir development, but looks like Sublime takes the current directory from the file being run, and VSCode takes the project’s root as the current directory. Simple!
And that’s what @easco also said.

I first tried the way they taught and it gave me an error with the reason :enoent then I removed the ../../ part from it, and it worked.
Now I don’t know, why it worked this ( case File.read("pages/about.html") do )
way, because if you look at the directory structure, it should work the way Nicole and Mike taught ( case File.read("../../pages/about.html") do ).

Edit: The only difference in our setups is that they’re running the script inside Sublime, and I have coderunner extension installed in VSCode, which does the job.

Edit2:

I even ran it from the terminal, being in the root of the project I ran elixir lib/servy/handler.ex, still it worked without ../../

Thank you for the reply!

Elixir has a concept of the current working directory that relative paths are resolved against. Perhaps Mike an Nicole we’re running the application from a different path than you were.