In today’s post I want to start a conversation around the tradeoffs of using Typespecs and Dialyzer use in your Elixir code.

https://mikezornek.com/posts/2021/1/typespecs-and-dialyzer/

The course focuses on mastering LiveView’s new testing tools as well as learning the thought process behind writing effective LiveView tests so they’re fast, robust, and easy to maintain.

https://www.testingliveview.com/

Latest episode of Elixir Wizards is out today! Check it out here: https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s5e8-nowack-heinz/

When you start your adventure with Elixir, you may wonder where to get the knowledge. In this article, I have prepared a list of books that may help you to become an Elixir programmer, or improve your career.

https://bartoszgorka.com/the-best-books-to-start-or-improve-your-Elixir-career

Get an introduction to LiveView LiveComponents and how you can use them in your Phoenix apps.

https://elixircasts.io/phoenix-liveview-livecomponent

Learn how to compile your MJML email templates into EEx templates at build time and send them out using Swoosh. Also learn how to edit the Phx.Gen.Auth scaffolding in order to send out these MJML emails when users register. https://akoutmos.com/post/mjml-template-compliation/

Integrating phx_gen_auth and OAuth for a Phoenix LiveView app https://iacobson.medium.com/phx-gen-auth-and-oauth-for-a-phoenix-liveview-app-a19a27e6befa

A look at the requirements and goals that pushed us to choose Elixir for our massive multiplayer game server, plus a post-mortem of the pros & cons of Elixir that we ran into during the implementation.

https://developer.x-plane.com/2021/01/have-you-heard-the-good-news-about-elixir/

finally my employer http://pmr-rnd.de published the web pages on our elixir/nerves programmable LoRaWAN gateway server http://pmr-rnd.de/lora-gateway/ and the wip page for our LoRa client http://pmr-rnd.de/lora-client/

In episode 31 of Thinking Elixir, we talk with Oleg Tarasenko and Tze Yiing about crawling the web using Elixir. Oleg created the crawly project to help solve this problem and Tze Yiing joined him as a contributor and maintainer. We cover how Elixir is well suited to orchestrate crawling projects, how to deal with login pages, understanding the legal concerns, building a codeless scraper and much more!

Podcast Episode

Let’s look closely at how Absinthe uses some metaprograming tricks and module attributes to provide compile-time schema validation for us.

https://blog.appsignal.com/2021/01/19/how-absinthe-uses-compilation-callbacks-for-schema-validation-in-elixir.html

https://leanpub.com/create-a-cryptocurrency-trading-bot-in-elixir/

4 new chapters, All code starting from chapter 2 got refreshed, logs improved and many descriptions rephrased.

Surpassed 100 pages 🍾 Enjoy ❤️

As a follow-up to my post about the PETAL stack on the Changelog.com blog I put together this getting-started-guide for anyone wanting to try it out. Hope it helps: https://underjord.io/getting-started-with-petal.html

Started a new blog series - Open-source Deep Dive - where I dissect an open-source project and try to understand the project and the underlying technologies that power it!

The project to kick start this series is Hound - an Elixir library for browser automation and integration testing!

For this project, I explored how browser automation works and looked at how Hound takes fundamental principles of Elixir to build a robust library for writing integration tests with browser automation. I tried to focus on keeping the explanations clear and simple for even beginners to understand!

The post can be found here: https://woojiahao.github.io/blog/posts/2021-01-10-Open-source Deep Dive: Hound

Changelog

v11.9.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix syntax highlighting stopping due to decompiling of Kernel failing caused by bugs introduced in #1834. Syntax highlighting could fail part way through a file when Kernel needed to be decompiled to resolve parts of the syntax. This would lead to the file to be colored above a certain point, but then the default gray after that point.

  • Connect compiled stubs to decompiled source by name/arity. Previously, when the decompiler didn’t use the Docs, it was guaranteed that the PsiCompiled stubs would correlate, in-order, with the decompiled source call definitions, and so mirrors could be set by matching up the list of them in order. Since the Docs doesn’t have to correspond to and doesn’t correspond to the binary precisely for some BEAMs, most importantly, Elixir.Kernel.beam, the PsiCompiled stub and decompiled source is now matched by name and arity. This means some mirrors are missed, but no errors are produced.
  • Allow decompile source to map to entire arity range Since the decompile source from Docs can have default arguments the call definition clauses can have an arity range and not just a fixed arity, so all arities in the range need to be mappable to PsiCompiled functions.
  • Use correct macro for signature from Docs. Ensures that defmacro is used for macros instead of hard-coding def as in #1834.
  • Use ~S””” for docs from Docs chunk. The docs from the Docs chunk may contain interpolation in the code samples or #{ in regex examples, but these should not be treated as an interpolation start as the Docs format does not support interpolation. Anything that looks like interpolation in the docs text was actually escaped in the original docs, so also escape it here by using S”””, which turns off interpolation.
  • Log an error if Code function can’t be matched to decompiled source. Unlike the old InvalidMirrorException, this won’t be an exception and the binary <-> decompile will still work for the other functions/macros in the file, so it will be a more graceful degradation.

• Fix missed references to DepsWatcher as project component DepsWatcher was converted to a Project Listener in #1844 to support installing the plugin from the Marketplace without reloading, but some references to DepsWatcher were still trying to get its instance for project using project.getComponent(), which would now return null.

• Target Java 1.8 for JPS compatibility. JPS (JetBrains Project System) is the API used to allow External Builders, like mix to build projects.

• Fix matching unquote(ATOM) call definitions to compiled function by using the argument tounquote when calculating the name of the call definition clause if possible. Needed to match anonymous function names that are unquoted because they contain / to separate the outer function name from the anonymous function naming convention.

• Don’t use Docs signature for MacroNameArity that is an operator or unquoted The signatures for operators and unquoted don’t produce valid code that can be parsed.

• Don’t use signatures for __struct__ functions. The signatures for the __struct__ functions are like %Module{}, but that’s not parseable, so bypass the signatures with a specialized SignatureOverride decompiler that matches the actual code in defstruct.

• Don’t indent empty lines from Docs for @moduledoc and @doc to match the formatter output.

• Fix capitalization of Docs @moduledoc @moduleDoc -> @moduledoc

Installation Instructions

How to stream very large lists to improve page load & rendering time.

https://alex-min.fr/phoenix-live-view-very-large-list-hook/

A quick guide on decimals in Elixir.

Latest episode of Elixir Wizards is out today! Check it out here: https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s5e7-axelson/

We’ve open-sourced the most important component of the massive multiplayer server we use for the X-Plane flight simulator: an implementation of the RakNet protocol.

You can find it on GitHub, under the MIT license: https://github.com/X-Plane/elixir-raknet

A bit of background:

RakNet is a popular C++ library for doing game networking. It provides things like stateful connections, client clock synchronization (the bane of every network game programmers’ existence), and both reliable and unreliable UDP transmissions, so you can choose how much latency your packets can handle.

This is pretty niche stuff, but maybe it’ll be useful for someone else. Reverse-engineering this stuff from the RakNet source was, uh, a bit of a pain. 😄

EctoExtras is a set of simple helper functions for Ecto.Repo and Ecto.Query that I find missing from the default implementation. https://github.com/pawurb/ecto_extras