katbow / learn-elixir

Learn Elixir to build dynamic, functional, scalable and maintainable web applications!

learn-elixir

Learn Elixir to build dynamic, functional, scalable and maintainable web applications!

Why?

Elixir is scalable, efficient, and fault-tolerant. Things will go wrong with code, and Elixir provides supervisors which describe how to restart parts of your system when things don't go as planned.

What?

"Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications."

Background links:

• Introduction and Setup
• Getting started

How?

You can see how to install Elixir here

Installation basics:

Mac:

brew install elixir

Ubuntu:

• Add Erlang Solutions repo: wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb && sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
• Run: sudo apt-get update
• Install the Erlang/OTP platform and all of its applications: sudo apt-get install esl-erlang
• Install Elixir: sudo apt-get install elixir