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Aaron in everydayhero engineering

Oct 10, 2017

Create an Elixir Phoenix API — Part 2— Generate an API Swagger Specification

<< Part 1 — Initial Barebones Setup

Welcome back! This time we’ll focus on how to generate and surface our API’s documentation, adding a route to help explore, and update…

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Matt Furness in everydayhero engineering

Jun 25, 2017

Extensibility in Elixir Using Protocols

The last post took a little look into the concept of atoms in Elixir and how they are used. This post will cover one of options that Elixir provides for extensibility, protocols.

Protocols

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Aaron in everydayhero engineering

Mar 26, 2017

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…

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Matt Furness in everydayhero engineering

Feb 27, 2017

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:

Aaron in everydayhero engineering

Jan 17, 2017

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…

Matt Furness in everydayhero engineering

Jan 16, 2017

Elixir Atoms

The last post took a peek at how functions can be defined and passed around in Elixir. This post centres around atoms and some of their not so obvious traits.

What are they?

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Matt Furness in everydayhero engineering

Dec 22, 2016

Elixir Function Capturing

The last post covered some bits and bobs about Elixir variable rebinding. This post will aim to cover some interesting things we have learned about defining, and passing around functions in Elixir.

Defining Functions with def

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Matt Furness in everydayhero engineering

Dec 18, 2016

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…

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