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Mastering Elixir

You're reading from   Mastering Elixir Build and scale concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788472678
Length 574 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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André Albuquerque André Albuquerque
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Daniel Caixinha Daniel Caixinha
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Preface 1. Preparing for the Journey Ahead 2. Innards of an Elixir Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Processes – The Bedrock of Concurrency and Fault Tolerance 4. Powered by Erlang/OTP 5. Demand-Driven Processing 6. Metaprogramming – Code That Writes Itself 7. Persisting Data Using Ecto 8. Phoenix – A Flying Web Framework 9. Finding Zen through Testing 10. Deploying to the Cloud 11. Keeping an Eye on Your Processes 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adopting a consistent coding style

During your project inception, one of the most important steps is deciding on how to structure your project. The choices made here will, in the long term, affect how you maintain and evolve your application. The usage of static code analysis tools also contribute to the ease of maintenance of your project, letting you catch bugs, syntax errors and weird code style as soon as possible.

Here, we'll configure Credo to analyze our code, looking for possible refactors, common mistakes and inconsistencies and then use the Elixir 1.6 formatter to format all the code of our application.

We do not want to run our static analysis tools in production, so we will only add Credo as a dependency for the dev and test environments. We'll also make sure that Credo stays put when we run our project, by setting its runtime option as false...

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Mastering Elixir
Published in: Jul 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788472678
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