Location: Chicago, IL Remote: preferred Willing to relocate: not currently Technologies: JavaScript/Typescript -proficient in Vue & angular and client-side app architecture including state management Java - spring boot and spring cloud supporting services Docker & k8s AWS & GCP Python Elixir Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emgjones Email: em@agiantagravic.com

I've just been trying to get back into elixir recently, myself. I'd done some basic crud 'helloworld' stuff when I first tried about a year into professional development.

I've since had the Fortune to spend time learning about cloud native apps, distributed service patterns, and supporting infrastructure (spring cloud, pcf, vanilla k8s, gcp) and now returning to elixir having at least better understanding of what erlang and OTP offers.

I'm super excited to see I'm not alone in finding this sort of stack is worth fiddling with(although, I tend to pick Vue when not using angular for work).

Thanks for posting this!!

For those interested in what resources I'm leaning on: The Manning 'Elixir in Action' and the Pragmatic Programmer's graphql texts along with exercism.

Anybody else have any preferred resources for these technologies?

I almost exclusively learned the basics of Elixir / Phoenix by looking at the source code of https://changelog.com which is at https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com.

Major kudos to them for open sourcing their platform. It covers like 50+ common web dev features.

I pretty much skimmed the docs to get the ultra basics, looked at that source while I was building my own app and then asked questions when I got really stuck. Even managed to sneak in some refactoring on their code base a few days into learning Elixir. It's super approachable without much more if you have some type of programming background beforehand.

This is a sweet shout-out. Thanks!

If you're interested in the Phoenix Framework you should check out "Programming Phoenix: Productive |> Reliable |> Fast".

It's written by the creator of Phoenix (Chris McCord) and the creator of Elixir (José Valim), and it's a fantastic intro to Phoenix.

Link: https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix14/programming-phoenix-1-4

This has been on my radar. I'll have to add it to my queue on Safari. Thanks for the rec!!

I liked this "Elixir For Programmers" by Dave Thomas

https://codestool.coding-gnome.com/courses/elixir-for-progra...

I can recommend this one too! It skips right over the boring stuff and focuses on the (Dave-Thomas-flavored-) good parts. Definitely worth it if you're already somewhat proficient in Elixir.

I'm a big fan of both the Manning and Pragprog books.

Even if you've worked at it a bit already, you'll probably get something out of doing the first dozen or so challenges on my channel as well: https://youtu.be/G3JRv2dHU9A?t=595

I am pretty much in the same boat. My resources have been Programming Phoenix first edition. I am now going back and reading Programming Elixir and then re read Programming Phoenix 1.4 and then the GraphQL book by same publisher.