Key Features
Explore the functional paradigms of programming with Elixir through use of helpful examples
Concise step-by-step instructions to teach you difficult technical concepts
Bridge the gap between functional programming and Elixir
Book Description
Elixir, based on Erlang's virtual machine and ecosystem, makes it easier to achieve scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, and high availability goals that are pursued by developers using any programming language or programming paradigm. Elixir is a modern programming language that utilizes the benefits offered by Erlang VM without really incorporating the complex syntaxes of Erlang.
Learning to program using Elixir will teach many things that are very beneficial to programming as a craft, even if at the end of the day, the programmer isn't using Elixir. This book will teach you concepts and principles important to any complex, scalable, and resilient application. Mostly, applications are historically difficult to reason about, but using the concepts in this book, they will become easy and enjoyable. It will teach you the functional programing ropes, to enable them to create better and more scalable applications, and you will explore how Elixir can help you achieve new programming heights. You will also glean a firm understanding of basics of OTP and the available generic, provided functionality for creating resilient complex systems. Furthermore, you will learn the basics of metaprogramming: modifying and extending Elixir to suite your needs.
What you will learn
Explore Elixir to create resilient, scalable applications
Create fault-tolerant applications
Become better acquainted with Elixir code and see how it is structured to build and develop functional programs
Learn the basics of functional programming
Gain an understanding of effective OTP principles
Design program-distributed applications and systems
Write and create branching statements in Elixir
Learn to do more with less using Elixir's metaprogramming
Be familiar with the facilities Elixir provides for metaprogramming, macros, and extending the Elixir language
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introducing Elixir – Thinking Functionally
Chapter 2: Elixir Basics – Foundational Steps toward Functional Programming
Chapter 3: Modules and Functions – Creating Functional Building Blocks
Chapter 4: Collections and Stream Processing
Chapter 5: Control Flow – Occasionally You Need to Branch
Chapter 6: Concurrent Programming – Using Processes to Conquer Concurrency
Chapter 7: OTP – A Poor Name for a Rich Framework
Chapter 8: Distributed Elixir – Taking Concurrency to the Next Node
Chapter 9: Metaprogramming – Doing More with Less
