Topic: Elixir
7 Gettext lessons learned after 2 years of developing a European platform
In January 2020, we grew Steady's language support from 2 to 9 languages. Those initial efforts, as well as adding new features to the platform afterwards, taught us a few good practices for working with Gettext.
The problem with Task.await/2 and timeouts
It's a common pattern to start many asynchronous tasks at once and then await each task using Task.await/2. But did you know that the timeouts can add up?
Speed up the compilation of Elixir projects that use Gettext
With those two small configuration fixes, we managed to make our Phoenix project compile 3 times faster.
Link Phoenix debug page stack trace to your editor
You can configure Plug.Debugger to generate links that open the line that caused the error in your editor.
CSRF protection in Phoenix
If your Phoenix app uses basic authentication or cookies for authentication, you need to protect it from cross-site request forgery.
How to asynchronously download files in Elixir
With either HTTPotion or HTTPoison.
Print my string, Elixir!
Not everything that presents itself as a binary is an invalid string.
How to ORDER BY the result of SELECT COUNT in Ecto
Spoiler: by using fragments to set an alias.
Hello World web app in Elixir, part 3 - Phoenix
In the process of learning Elixir I am writing the same simple web app three times, using three different tools. This is the third part - the variant using the web framework Phoenix.
Hello World web app in Elixir, part 2 - Plug
In the process of learning Elixir I am writing the same simple web app three times, using three different tools. This is the second part - the variant using Plug.
Hello World web app in Elixir, part 1 - Cowboy
In the process of learning Elixir I am writing the same simple web app three times, using three different tools. This is the first part - the variant using only the Cowboy web server.
