GenServers are foundational to Elixir, and I find myself explaining them frequently to people new to the language. I took a shot at writing down my framing of a GenServer.
sb8244
Author of Real-Time Phoenix
axelson
Scenic Core Team
Nice article! If you do a part two one thing that would be good to cover is registration/names and why it is important (such as the process dying and being restarted with a new pid)
with
This is the Future of Webdev. Crazy, Right?
So many reasons to be excited about LiveView! Is anyone still using anything else for new projects? It’s been my experience that most of the companies nowadays really use LiveView (GraphQL/Plain Phoenix is just legacy stuff).
Allyedge
Hey! I’ve been learning Elixir for a while, and felt ready to write stories about it. So I wrote a story about “What is Elixir?”
Would love to hear what you think!
Sebb
Nice start, looking forward to whats to come.
Even though I love the Elixir community and think they are pretty friendly, it doesn’t change the fact that Elixir community is small.
It’s nowhere close to the JavaScript or Python community, and there aren’t as many resources and tutorials to learn it. Which means you will have to learn a lot of stuff on your own.
sure, you can’t compare the Elixir community with JS or python, but
- it is the biggest(?) community in the functional world (which will always be sparsely populated)
- there is a lot of high quality introductory material and the official documentation (of the big libs and frameworks) is very good - what did you have to “learn on your own”?
Allyedge
Yeah I think I gotta edit that part a bit. So, Elixir and Elixir frameworks docs are pretty cool and self explanatory. But for example when you compare the tutorial counts its usually like 500 JS tutorials vs 5 elixir ones.
I will edit it to something like “community made tutorials”, thanks for pointing that out!
Allyedge
I just wrote another Elixir post, can’t stop haha.
Would love to hear what you think.
Medium Partnered Story
https://alimarslank.medium.com/phoenix-liveview-building-web-apps-without-javascript-ce7bd01f2ed5
derek-zhou
If you like to blog with Medium premium content that’s fine; however, can you mention that it is premium here.
Allyedge
