July 21, 2020

5: Learning Elixir with Ricardo Trindade

31 minutes

We talk with Ricardo Trindade about learning Elixir and GraphQL. We discuss learning on personal interest projects, GraphQL vs REST, executing Ruby or Python from Elixir, helpful learning resources and much more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/5

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/msaraiva/surface – The Surface Library recently proposed scoped CSS

https://twitter.com/pressy4pie/status/1281409111108669440 – Conner and Frank were able to spike up a Flutter UI on top of Nerves

Lots of small project updates

https://changelog.com/podcast/402 – Jose Valim was interviewed on the Changelog podcast episode 402

Elixir master updated. Calendar module; added is_exception guard which builds upon the is_struct guard recently added.

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/10157 – Elixir now pulls git dependencies by their default branch instead of assuming the master branch, if the branch is not specified.

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – The proposed runtime.exs file change was merged.

https://sorentwo.com/2020/06/12/announcing-oban-pro.html – Oban 2.0 and the Introduction of Oban Web+Pro

https://elixirsurvey.typeform.com/to/yYmJv1 – Reminder to fill out the Elixir ecosystem survey! Open until August 11th.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://marleyspoon.com/

https://medium.com/@ricardo.trindade743/building-an-animal-crossing-new-horizons-graphql-api-in-elixir-c304cef7ad30 – Ricardo’s blog post about building a GraphQL API

https://animal-crossing.com/new-horizons/ – The Nintendo Switch game being discussed

https://graphql-code-generator.com/ – Tool for building GraphQL frontend client code

https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootcamp-and-tutorial/ – Udemy training course

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html

https://github.com/route/mogrify – Elixir wrapper for ImageMagick command line

http://erlport.org/ – ErlPort - connect Erlang to other languages

https://github.com/hdima/erlport – ErlPort - on Github

https://github.com/weatherforce/erlport – ErlPort fork Mark is using

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/docs-tests-and-with.html – Elixir doctest feature

https://pragprog.com/titles/tvmelixir/ – Book - Adopting Elixir

https://book.productionreadygraphql.com/ – Book - Production Ready GraphQL

https://thinkingelixir.com/available-courses/pattern-matching/ – Learning Elixir? Pattern matching is a big foundational piece. This FREE course helps you get that “super power” feeling and helps you “get it” faster and more completely. I’m giving this away because I want everyone to have access to it.

Guest Information

https://github.com/RicardoTrindade/ – on Github

https://www.ricardo-trindade.com/ – Blog

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Cade Ward - @cadebward

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