Create an Elixir Phoenix API — Part 1 — Initial Barebones Setup

When getting started with Elixir and Phoenix there is plenty of help online with setting up a Phoenix app with the local HTML and JavaScript stack but few that focus on a pure API. I know that when I start learning a new…

Elixir Variable Rebinding

Here at everydayhero we are starting to use more and more Elixir in production systems, so as more of the team start to learn the language and it’s frameworks, we thought it might be nice to share some of the interesting tidbits that we encounter along the way. The tidbit we would…

Elixir: When match? is always true

A look at the inner workings of the match? macro

This is a quick post to highlight what we found is an easy mistake to make when encountering the match? macro. Which from the documentation is:

Unit Testing Higher Order Functions in Elixir

So one question we’ve had with regards to Elixir unit testing is “how do we test functions which take functions as arguments?” This article aims to illustrate the approach we’ve adopted that doesn’t require mocks, stubs, spies or any library other…

You already know what Monads are

Assuming you’re a javascript dev who’s had to deal with anything asynchronous.

Firstly, we’re going to talk about promises, so:

What do we talk about when we talk about Promises?

Sharing behaviour between React components

React 0.13 introduced using plain Javascript classes to create components, 0.14 introduced “stateless functional components” as another method of defining them. Neither of these have an in-built method for behaviour sharing such as we had with the mixins…