I’ve just recently discovered Elixir, and honestly—it’s been mind-blowing so far (coming from a React background). I’m really excited to dive deeper, learn the language properly, and start building web apps that integrate AI models (working with inference, APIs, and possibly fine-tuning down the road).
I’d love to hear your recommendations on Elixir books for beginners—whether it’s for grasping the language fundamentals, building web apps with Phoenix, or just getting into functional programming with Elixir in general.
What would you recommend as a solid starting list?
Also, I would suggest working through the guides to start. This will give you the simplest overview of all the language has to offer. Note that while these guides exist in the docs, they are in fact guides and not just standard reference docs. Many people seem to be thrown but this, so I thought I’d qualify.
I’ll repost links to what I’ve said about books I’ve read (I recommend all of them)…
That last one is an excellent look into functional programming
Never got around to finishing Programming Phoenix - but here’s a quick interim review of it:
Started doing Pragmatic Studio’s LiveView Course too but again haven’t had time to finish it (but I loved it and look forward to getting back into it when I’ve got time to get back into it all):
I want to get through all of the Elixir books if I can and would recommend others try to as well, there’s always something invaluable to glean from them
A non-impartial recommendation on my part, obviously, but if you’re looking to learn by doing, and learn some Elixir while also learning how to model databases with Ecto, Northwind Elixir Traders has got you covered.
but imo if you are a bit impatient and are planning on using something like phx/phx liveview then this is king The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook (Manning) and you can then look through the phx docs etc
