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by a_c 1211 days ago
Do you have any pointer, book preferably, in starting an exploratory Elixir project? I don't have any objective apart from giving the ecosystem a taste
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If you really want a book pick one from here [0]. First one is good.

Personally I think just following the official guide [1] will give you all you need to get a taste of the language and the platform and decide if you like it or not.

If you were talking about websockets in particular I guess realistically most people use Phoenix Channels [2] that give you websockets in ten lines of code.

[0] https://elixir-lang.org/learning.html

[1] https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html

[2] https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html

I can highly recommend Elixir in Action, 2nd ed.

This talk by the same author is also a good introduction in video format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE