Innards of an Elixir Project

After looking at the building blocks in the past chapter, we will now explore the fundamental aspects of any Elixir project. There are a few rules that need to be followed, but fortunately every one of them is simple to adopt and contributes to an understandable project structure. An application that doesn't get in the way of the evolution and maintenance tasks during all its years in production is a joy for the people who work with it, and this is exactly what we aim for.

We will start by learning what an Elixir application is and how we can structure an Elixir project, along with some of the existing good practices that you can leverage. We will introduce Umbrella applications and how they can help you to define more rigid boundaries between your project's components. When creating our umbrella project, we will use some common...

Tyler Munyon Jul 10, 2019

Love the book so far, especially since we get to build an application that uses concepts that we are learning. Am wondering how to get the online version of the book on packt??

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Sean Bergstedt Apr 21, 2020

[REVISION]After re-referencing it a few more times, I've had time to reconsider my previous 1 star vote. There are some good sections on leveraging elixir's GenStage abstraction with Flow, which is unique and a pretty new addition to the Elixir scene. There are also some good sections on how to setup umbrella projects, how to integrate with SQL backend and best practices preserving coding style.The book is a bit rough around the edges, though, in terms of organization and just getting how the code works on your first read. Like I mentioned in my original review, you kind of have to hunt for what you want to learn and if you want to follow the code, you need to already have some familiarity with mix and the language. So, if you're just starting with Elixir, I'd recommend looking for one of the introductory books instead.[ORIGINAL]Lots of cross referencing and looking at the on-line source code to make sure your book code is tracking along nicely. Sometimes you have to look at something in later chapters in order to run code in earlier chapters. I ended up spending more time organizing the information the editors should have organized for me.I continue to be disappointed with Pakt Publishing. They just crank out books on volume instead of quality. At the end of the day, I don't blame the authors as I'm sure they spent a great deal of time on this, but the organization of code and flow of content is wildly out of sync with the quality one should expect for a book this price.

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