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by unsungNovelty 814 days ago
I am trying to learn Erlang. The idea is to write a CRUD app which is a multi-user PWA app completely without framework. For front end, HTML, CSS and JS with reefjs for reactivity (these are are things I already know).

The idea is to experiment and stress test with the idea of write once run forever to the max. See how far can I get. Any resource for Erlang will be much appreciated.

Currently using exercism and Joe's book of Programming for the concurrent world 2nd edition. I guess beginner topics are covered. More interested in advanced erlang topics for which resources seems hard to come by. Specifically related to security since I would want to know how to go about the security of the backend using erlang.

2 comments

You might want to look into Nitrogen. It also has facilities, that allow you to not write JS.
Why not use something like cowboy?
I do intend to use cowboy. I guess I should have been more clear. There are definitely parts which I don't want to reinvent for obvious reasons.

But yeah. Product logic and security without using frameworks like Chicagoboos, Nova framework or Nitrogen is what I meant when I said no framework. Replacing any possible crypto parts or critical libraries like cowboy is not the intend.

yeah. you can get pretty far with it. i remember doing a similar experiment where I used just cowboy and plug without a framework (ie pheonix) when playing with elixir.