Elixir Resources

elixir.md

• Language homepage - duh
• RTFSource - seriously, the language source is predominantly written in Elixir by way of bootstrapping macros, and IMHO is incredibly readable and enlightening
• Plug repo - more great source code to read
• Phoenix Guides
• Other Phoenix resources
• ElixirSips - premium screencasts ala RailsCasts, etc.
• Elixir-lang Slack team - very active, rather friendly, lots of niche channels around i.e. Phoenix, Ecto, etc.
• #elixir-lang IRC channel on Freenode
• Core Elixir - series of charmingly-illustrated blog posts that deep dive into parts of the stdlib
• Elixir Radar - community news mailing list from Plataformatec
• Other mailing lists:
  • elixir-lang-core
  • elixir-ecto
  • elixir-lang-talk
  • phoenix-core
  • phoenix-talk
  • Functiona Elixir
• Hex - Rubygems.org equivalent, great for library discovery
• awesome-elixir - collection of open source projects listed by topic, another great resource for library discovery
• Books (I have print copies to lend for most of these if you know me in person)
  • Programming Elixir - the PragProg book by Dave Thomas, who gave an awesome keynote in 2014
  • Elixir In Action - deep dive into several topics, especially OTP/architecture from a long-time Erlang dev
  • Metaprogramming Elixir - macro shenanigans from the author of Phoenix
  • Introducing Elixir - an Oreilly book that I haven't read yet
  • Learn You Some Erlang - available for free online - sometimes you will need to dip into raw Erlang, especially when leveraging certain OSS libs
  • Erlang in Anger
  • Erlang and OTP in Action
  • Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
  • Which Elixir books should I read?
• Elixir subreddit
• ElixirDose
• Exercism - small puzzles combined with giving/receiving peer feedback - one of my favorite ways to learn a new lang
• ProjectEuler - another source of puzzles to stretch your Elixir legs
• #myelixirstatus hashtag
• Elixir Playground - share links to executable Elixir snippets ala jsfiddle, etc.