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Write a program that does what it’s supposed to do
Write idiomatic code
Debug a program that you wrote
Debug a program someone else wrote
Debug the interaction between a system you wrote and one you didn’t
File a good bug report
Modify a program you didn’t write
Test a program you wrote
Test a program you didn’t write
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Instachat

The Phoenix Framework was built with realtime communication as a first class priority. Using its built in socket handling and channels we can implement a basic, realtime chat application with little effort.

For this video we’re going to assume that you already have Elixir and Phoenix Setup. You will not need a database as the messages will not be persisted. This tutorial is taken pretty much directly from the Phoenix Documentation.

Setting up the app

To start let’s generate a standard phoenix application:

$> mix phoenix.new instachat

tute

A top-down look into Elixir (for Rubyists)

• Phoenix (as "Rails for Elixir")
  • Rails and Phoenix can get suspiciously similar
  • A code sample:
• controller.rb

teamon

defmodule Box do
  defmacro __using__(_env) do
    quote do
      import Box
    end
  end

  @doc """
  Define module with struct and typespec, in single line

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James Edward Gray II

Quote from Elixir Mix 63 - "063: Designing Elixir Systems With OTP with Bruce Tate and James Gray", starting at 01:03:13

"I've worked at a bunch of companies building web apps for a long time, and I keep seeing this same pattern, and it haunts me. In the web world, all we want is these long interactions with people, and we live in this stateless world. So what we do is, the first part of every request, we do thirty queries to re-establish the state of the world that we just forgot a few seconds ago after the last request. And then we go forward and make one tiny step forward, and then we forget everything again, so that when the next request comes in we can do thirty queries to put it all back and make one more tiny step. And I kept thinking, "there has to be a better way than this, right?"

And if you look at web advancements over the years, most of the things we're doing are