This is a fantastic article written by our Launch Scout team member and Principal Engineer, Andrew Ek about supporting and building the Elixir community. https://launchscout.com/blog/supporting-elixir-or-other-communities

In part one of this series, we introduced the core generated components when bootstrapping a new Phoenix project. We used a button and a modal from the core components to lay the groundwork for a “create modal”.

In this post, we will put a form onto the modal and create pets.

https://blog.appsignal.com/2023/08/01/add-a-form-to-a-modal-in-phoenix-1-7.html

LiveView 0.19 added phx-viewport-top and phx-viewport-bottom to help with infinite scroll

Just tested it and was amazed that a one line change allowed me to remove my entire InfiniteScroll JS hook! 🤯

Check it out! 👇

https://www.elixirstreams.com/tips/liveview-viewport-bottom

Episode 162 of Thinking Elixir. WebAssembly is an interesting technology that feels completely separate from Elixir. Patrick Smith created an Elixir project called Orb, an Elixir DSL for WebAssembly. He also shows how a WebAssembly component can play a meaningful role in a LiveView page! We talk more about what WebAssembly is, the promise for the technology, how it can improve UX, and where Patrick sees real practical applications for Elixir developers.

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/162

Explore how to sort and delete many-to-many associations in Ecto using the powerful :sort_param and :delete_param options from cast_assoc, all with the magic of LiveView. https://fly.io/phoenix-files/cast-assoc-sort-and-delete-options/

Join the BeamRadio panel for a riveting talk with Sean Moriarity on Elixir and machine learning! https://www.beamrad.io/54

https://launchscout.com/blog/supporting-elixir-or-other-communities

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks who want to help the Elixir community, but who don’t know where to start or feel intimidated by “just make an open source library”. This article provides several concrete things people might try, ranging in size/difficulty from “I can spend 10-15 minutes per week reading and sharing what I learn” to “I can hire Elixir developers!”

https://dev.to/bitscorp/optimizing-elixir-phoenix-action-with-huge-json-response-by-responding-by-cached-gzipped-values-1d64

Thanks for reading!

Curiosity piqued by GPT-4 and its implications for product development? 💡

Check out the blog post that takes you through potential products that could harness GPT-4’s powerful AI capabilities. 🚀 https://curiosum.com/blog/exploring-product-ideas-leveraging-gpt-4-as-a-core-component

I imagine many think ExUnit just does some scripting to run tests.

But it’s actually a full Elixir app! I think that’s awesome 😎

Check it out 👇

https://www.elixirstreams.com/tips/ex-unit-is-an-app

In episode 167, we’ll use the fantastic Flop library to add pagination and sortable tables to an application.

https://elixircasts.io/flop-part-1

A lot’s changed since Chris McCord’s fantastic LiveView twitter clone video!

I wanted to showcase what’s happened in LiveView since then, including:

• Live file upload
• Streams
• phx.gen.auth improvements
• LiveView Core Components

See the full video: https://youtu.be/4cnmyQJToKM

This blog post discusses a safer way to build the adapter pattern in Elixir applications. It also provides guidance around the when to use and not use the adapter pattern.

https://aaronrenner.io/2023/07/22/elixir-adapter-pattern.html

Episode 161 of Thinking Elixir. Language Servers underpin the language specific support we rely on in modern code editors. Lately, there have been new efforts in this area in the Elixir community. We talk with Steve Cohen about his project Lexical LS to learn about his new Elixir Language Server, how long he’s been at it, and what it can do today. We learn about some of the technical challenges when creating a tool like this, and why there’s still room for new projects in this area. Steve explains how Lexical LS is architected and that it is a goal to be easy to contribute to and work on the Lexical project itself. Time to give it a try!

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/161

Andrea Leopardi (@whatyouhide) breaks down the HTTP clients in Elixir! I personally reach for Finch but I’ve been hearing a lot about Req. Find out the difference and then some! https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/breakdown-of-http-clients-in-elixir/

With DoIt you can generate nice CLI tools in Elixir. You have two ways two package your CLI:

• escript: Generate an executable to run in any machine that has Erlang/OTP installed.
• burrito-elixir: Generate a single binary with all dependencies.

https://github.com/rzcastilho/do_it

This is our first case study in a series of exploring a real-world usage of the Elixir.

Read it here: https://curiosum.com/blog/paraxial-elixir-case-study

This is our first case study in a series of exploring a real-world usage of the Elixir.

Read it here: https://curiosum.com/blog/paraxial-elixir-case-study

A recently published paper makes some misleading claims about Elixir security. How do they hold up?

https://paraxial.io/blog/still-safe

Many developers who learn Elixir come from a background in Ruby. This is hardly surprising: Elixir’s creator, José Valim, was formerly a prominent Ruby developer, and Elixir has been attracting Rubyists since the very beginning!

But while Elixir’s syntax looks like Ruby at a glance, you’ll quickly realise that these similarities are skin-deep. The two languages are very different in their underlying designs, and Elixir often requires you to structure your code in a way that looks nothing like the equivalent Ruby. Certain aspects of Elixir will feel very unfamiliar to a Rubyist, and will take some getting used to.

This series will give a brief introduction to Elixir for developers who already know Ruby. But before we get into the details of Elixir’s syntax, it’s worth reviewing some of the higher-level differences between the two languages. In particular, here are the three most important differences between Elixir and Ruby:

https://phoenixonrails.com/blog/elixir-for-ruby-developers-the-three-most-important-differences