Getting to Know the Elixir Development Environment

Often times, the hardest part of learning a new language is not the language syntax itself, but becoming familiar with the tools and workflows that make up the language environment. The intent of this meetup is to make you comfortable creating, testing, debugging and running simple Elixir apps. We'll create a simple app together and walk through common tasks when first getting started in a new language such as:

• Creating a new project with Mix

• Writing and running unit tests w/ ExUnit

• Using IEx, the interactive Elixir shell

• Fetching project dependencies with Hex

This talk is geared towards Elixir beginners, but all are welcome to share their experiences and perhaps gain a nugget or two of previously undiscovered info.

If you want to follow along on your own laptop (which is encouraged), please come with a working Elixir environment. I.e. you should have working `elixir`, `mix` and `iex` binaries:

$ elixir -v

Elixir 1.0.5

$ mix -v
Mix 1.0.5