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Learning Elixir: Creating Modules

I’ve published a new article in my Elixir learning series on dev.to exploring modules - the labeled containers that group related functions and keep code organized.

The article covers:

  • What modules really are and why module names are atoms under the hood
  • Defining modules with defmodule and structuring their functions
  • Public vs private functions with def and defp - and why private functions matter
  • Using module attributes as compile-time constants
  • Documenting modules and functions with @moduledoc and @doc
  • How module names map to files and directories in a project
  • Nested modules, namespacing with dots, Module.split/1, Module.concat/1, and MODULE
  • Building a small in-memory to-do list module from scratch to tie it all together

With complete working examples you can copy into IEx, you’ll learn how modules become the backbone of organizing any Elixir codebase - from small scripts to large applications.
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