LearnElixir.tv: Recent Episodes
Daniel Berkompas
Learn how to get some of the benefits of static typing with Erlang's static analysis tool, dialyzer.
Learn what little you need to know about Elixir exceptions. You won't be using them often!
Learn about Elixir's data polymorphism feature: Protocols. Also, learn a bit about how Elixir handles extension.
Learn about how Elixir makes it trivially easy to distribute your app between machines.
You don't need a GenServer for everything. Try Task for asynchronous jobs, and Agent for simple storage.
Learn about error handling in OTP, and supervision trees, the OTP framework's powerful way of keeping a system stable.
This episode begins our look at OTP, starting out with GenServer, its component for managing long-running processes.
Learn about processes, Elixir's core concurrency feature. Processes are an essential Elixir concept, so don't miss it!
Learn how to use ExUnit, Elixir's built-in testing framework, and one of its best features: doctests.
Learn about Mix, the project builder and manager for Elixir, including custom mix tasks.
Learn about Elixir's final loop-like feature: comprehensions, powered by the for macro.
Learn how to control the flow of your Elixir program with macros, pattern matching, and guards.
Learn how to organize your Elixir code into modules, named functions, and custom types.
Learn about Elixir's many operators. Most importantly, the match and pipeline operators.
Learn about Elixir's data types, their implementation, and performance characteristics.