Elixir Cookbook

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Elixir Cookbook

By : Paulo Pereira

Book Image

Elixir Cookbook

By: Paulo Pereira

Overview of this book

Elixir Cookbook

Elixir Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Command Line

Using the terminal to prototype and test ideas

Loading and compiling modules

Getting help and accessing documentation within IEx

Using Erlang from Elixir

Inspecting your system in IEx

Inspecting your system with Observer

Creating a simple application

Managing dependencies

Generating a supervised application

Generating umbrella applications

Managing application configuration

Creating custom Mix tasks

Data Types and Structures

Data Types and Structures

Understanding immutability

Adding and subtracting lists

Combining tuples into a list

Creating and manipulating keyword lists

Using pattern matching

Pattern matching an HTTPoison response

Creating a key/value store with a map

Mapping and reducing enumerables

Generating lazy (even infinite) sequences

Streaming a file as a resource

Strings and Binaries

Strings and Binaries

Joining strings

Splitting strings

Replacing string codepoints with patterns

Slicing strings with ranges

Using regular expressions

Combining operations with the |> operator

Creating a word list

Determining the word frequency in a text

Reading and writing metadata from MP3 files

Modules and Functions

Modules and Functions

Namespacing modules

Using module attributes as constants

Enforcing behaviors

Documenting modules

Using module directives

Using a module in the scripted mode

Defining functions with default arguments

Using guard clauses and pattern matching in function definitions

Processes and Nodes

Processes and Nodes

Sending messages between processes

Making code run on all available CPUs

Using tasks to perform multiple concurrent computations

Creating a stateful server process (messages with counters)

Using agents as an abstraction around states

Using an ETS table to share the state

Creating named nodes

Connecting nodes

Executing code in a different node

OTP – Open Telecom Platform

OTP – Open Telecom Platform

Implementing a GenServer

Expanding our server

Creating a supervisor

Using Observer to inspect supervisors and processes

Handling errors and managing exceptions

Packaging and releasing an OTP application

Deploying applications and updating a running system

Cowboy and Phoenix

Cowboy and Phoenix

Setting up Cowboy

Serving static files

Implementing a websocket handler

Creating a Phoenix application

Defining routes

Creating a controller

Creating views and templates

Implementing topics

Protecting the Phoenix app with SSL

Interactions

Using Redis and Postgres

Using OS commands from within Elixir

Getting Twitter data

Installation and Further Reading

Installation and Further Reading

Installing Elixir

Installing PostgreSQL

Installing Redis

Some useful links

Index

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Setting up Cowboy

In this recipe, we will set up Cowboy. We will add it as a dependency for our application and get ready to implement some functionalities, such as static file serving and websockets, in later recipes.

Getting ready

To get ourselves started, we will create a Mix application. To do this, enter the following command in a terminal window:

> mix new cowboy_app --sup

How to do it…

Now that we have created our Elixir application, we will set up Cowboy by following these steps:

Add Cowboy as a dependency in the mix.exs file under the deps method:
```
defp deps do
  [ 
   { :cowboy, "~> 1.0.0"} 
  ]
end
```
Fetch the dependencies by issuing the following command in a terminal window:
```
> mix deps.get
```
The dependencies will be fetched and the output will be similar to this:
Dependencies' installation
We will now compile the dependencies:
```
> mix deps.compile
```
Before we can use Cowboy, there is still one thing to do. We will add it to the applications section in our mix.exs file:
```
def application...
```