Here’s part three of the Building a simple Calendly clone with Phoenix LiveView series, in which we will learn some LiveView fundamentals while implementing the event type selection page.

https://bigardone.dev/blog/2021/11/11/building-a-simple-calendly-clone-with-phoenix-live-view-pt-3

Happy coding!

Did you know it’s National Apprentice Week? Here at SmartLogic we are celebrating the progress of our 2021 Apprentices with this blog post reflecting on what they’ve learned so far in the program. Read more about the skills they are developing and the benefits of curating an encouraging, supportive mentorship program in our company. https://smartlogic.io/blog/apprentice-program-2021/

Get notified as soon as your users discover an error in your Phoenix app so you can solve issues and push updates quicker. A guide to show you how to set up exception and error monitoring for Elixir with AppSignal.

In the final part of our series on metaprogramming, we’ll look at three common pitfalls you might encounter when using macros in Elixir.

In episode 73 of Thinking Elixir, we talk with Paul Copplestone, founder and CEO of Supabase. Supabase leverages the power of Elixir, Postgres, and more to create an OpenSource Firebase alternative that brings these powers to the Jamstack community. We cover TechCrunch’s coverage of their funding, how he considers Supabase as “the easiest way to use Postgres”. They offer a row-level security feature and we dig in to understand that. We go deeper on how an OpenSource company can get VC funding and how their business model works. Paul shares how Elixir, Phoenix and PubSub solves some hard problems that other ecosystems just don’t handle and how Supabase can help those other communities get some of those benefits using the tools they already chose. Some interesting features are that you can self-host if you want, swap out different components, and permissive licenses. It really seems to embody the OSS ethos. Great to see another company using Elixir to create lots of business value!

https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/073-elixir-at-supabase-with-paul-copplestone/

CryptoWatch, an Elixir example project to experiment with GenServers, Phoenix Channels, Websockets and D3.js.

Like pro.coinbase.com, but BEAM-flavoured

GitHub repo https://github.com/christian-fei/crypto_watch

Ecto is the go-to database toolkit for Elixir developers. Read our beginner-oriented article to learn how it works and what’s special about it.

https://serokell.io/blog/ecto-guide-for-beginners

The new release of ecto_psql_extras adds a ‘diagnose’ method. You can use it directly in your Phoenix LiveView dashboard. https://github.com/pawurb/ecto_psql_extras#diagnose-report

A guide to show you how to set up exception and error monitoring for your Elixir Phoenix application with Sentry. Get notified when users find an error in your app.

The latest episode of Elixir Wizards is out today! Check it out here: https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s7e2-jose/

Need a fast server and client? HTTP too slow? Try the Redis Protocol for lightning fast, low-overhead API calls. It’s easy to implement and nearly every language has mature Redis clients that can connect.

https://docs.statetrace.com/blog/redis-server/

A simple example of how to introduce a Universally unique identifier (UUID) into your project. You just need to remember a small modification in the migration and the column type change.

More on: https://bartoszgorka.com/uuid-as-primary-key-with-ecto

Hi there! Here’s part two of the “Building a simple Calendly clone with Phoenix LiveView” series, in which we will generate the initial project and domain models.

https://bigardone.dev/blog/2021/11/08/building-a-simple-calendly-clone-with-phoenix-live-view-pt-2

Happy coding!

“When you are building many Phoenix apps in a row, having a base model to start from can make things a lot easier.” Read more about how to implement filters in Phoenix in this new blog by SmartLogic Engineering Manager Sundi Myint. https://smr.tl/3CZ9xhZ

In episode 72 of Thinking Elixir, we talk with Wiebe-Marten Wijnja about his project TypeCheck that provides a new kind of runtime type checking for Elixir applications. The syntax builds on your existing spec types so it still works for dialyzer but adds additional compile time created checks. It also works for generating property based test data. This feature comes out in a new ability called “spectest”. Like doctests, you can have automated checks that verify the function adheres to the spec! We also cover how TypeCheck allows writing type declarations for other libraries like Ecto and Plug. There are some interesting ways for people to contribute! A very interesting library!

https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/072-typecheck-with-wiebe-marten-wijnja/

The last installment in the “Deploying Elixir” series is out:

https://blog.miguelcoba.com/deploying-an-elixir-release-to-gigalixir

I have started a new tutorial series in which we will build a simple Calendly clone using Phoenix LiveView.

https://bigardone.dev/blog/2021/11/06/building-a-simple-calendly-clone-with-phoenix-live-view-pt-1

Here you can find the working demo: https://calendlex.herokuapp.com/

Happy coding!

In this post we are going to see how to design solutions with state machines in Elixir.

Understand how to run database migrations when using Elixir releases plus learn how to include additional functions to handle some other less common situations like seeding your database.

SmartLogic team member Rose Hammer Burt wrote up this excellent piece on Elixir Trends, noting several high level themes from the recent ElixirConf 2021. Check it out here: https://smartlogic.io/blog/elixir-trends-fall-2021