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by querulous 3911 days ago
cowboy's documentation is pretty poor and there's no good 'getting started with cowboy' thing i can point you at, but this is pretty good for erlang in general:

http://howistart.org/posts/erlang/1

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Have you seen [1]? I found it very useful when getting starting with cowboy, though I had prior experience with Erlang.

It walks through a simple "Hello world" application starting with creation from template (erlang.mk), and discusses static files, SSL, websocket.. A very good first guide in my opinion. Though it doesn't really cover other techniques like how to architect your application or interact with a database.

[1] http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/1.0/guide/