As a person who has chosen Elixir as a concurrent language I see lack of concurrency covering books. A book which is like “Functional programming in Elixir” In it’s narrow approach. I’m now reading “programming Erlang” as a book about concurrency Itself because I haven’t found proper texts with problems about It.
This is a little bit frustrating.
Pilot93
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TwistingTwists
Designing Elixir Systems with Otp: Write Highly Scalable, Self-Healing Software with Layers
This are a great books on concurrent things in elixir.
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Kurisu
Thank you and all the people involved in creating these interesting articles. I also really appreciate your initiative to inquire about the needs of others. I hope you will find interesting topics for your next articles.
Personally, I would be interested in seeing step-by-step tutorials or guides on creating a voice or video chat application using Phoenix and LiveView in a browser. The application could also include features such as sending real-time voice messages and creating discussion groups. A whatsapp like application..
I think this would be useful for many people, as it would allow them to learn the basics of Phoenix and LiveView while creating a practical and relevant application for an “OTP language” such as Elixir.
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BradS2S
Learning Elixir with Phoenix. You go from basic concepts all the way to meta programming using Phoenix as the source material so
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You aren’t learning concepts in a vacuum / contrived scenarios
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Get familiar with the Phoenix codebase
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stevensonmt
I second the Concurrent Data Processing in Elixir recommendation. It’s very well done. For someone with limited background in comp sci it served as a great intro to the concepts. More broadly it was a great overview of the Elixir ecosystem’s main libraries and abstractions for concurrent problems. I would like to find a “real world” type example that builds an application step by step.
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bartblast
Creator of Hologram
Rich_Morin
This seems to have moved:
https://blog.plataformatec.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/whats-new-in-ecto-2-0.pdf
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cjbottaro
A 10 minute video on getting started with LiveView. I’m talking really basic stuff. Setting up a route, defining a LiveView module, assigns, rendering HTML. I.e. just getting dead renders working. Heck, you don’t even have to say it’s about LiveView! Just routing a web request to rendering HTML!
After dead renders, then show the connected?/1 function and how it relates to progressive loading.
Then annotating HTML with event handlers and how the LiveView implements them.
One or two 10 min videos to get people up and running with LV!
josevalim
Creator of Elixir
Here is where you can find an up to date version of the book: The Little Ecto Cookbook - Dashbit ebooks The one you linked is at least 3 years outdated (also please don’t link to the book directly).
And there is also programming Ecto from PragProg: Programming Ecto: Build Database Apps in Elixir for Scalability and Performance by Darin Wilson and Eric Meadows-Jönsson
