Calling Elixir from Erlang

I just wrote this:

https://joearms.github.io/published/2017-12-18-Calling-Elixir-From-Erlang.html

I’m not sure if I’m doing things correctly – the code seemed to work but I’m unsure if this is the best way to go about things.

All comments are most welcome

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Here is more information about the app file: https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Tasks.Compile.App.html

As for adding the current version of Dave’s software, I believe you should switch your deps code to the following:

defp deps do 
 [
   {:exexif, "~> 0.0.5"},
 ]
end

Since the package has been posted to hex.pm this is the recommended strategy https://hex.pm/packages/exexif

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Mix can directly handle your erlang code as well. Add a src folder in the mix project and elixirc_paths: ["lib", "src"] in the mix.exs project config. Then mix should compile your erlang files in src as well as the elixir files in lib and all the dependencies.

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There’s no need to modify elixirc_paths. Mix automatically picks up erlang files from src and elixir files from lib.

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