Elixir & Phoenix Free Crash Course

Learn the functional programming language Elixir, and how to build web applications with the Phoenix framework from scratch with this free video crash course. In this one video course, we will get introduced to the Elixir ecosystem, then we will build 2 real-world web applications with the Phoenix web development framework.

Topics covered on the video course:

What is Elixir

A quick introduction and history of the Elixir functional programming language.

Why build web applications with Elixir & Phoenix

Benefits of the language, and why the Phoenix web development framework is a great choice.

Who Am I

A quick introduction of the instructor.

Elixir Basics

We go over the fundamentals of the Elixir functional programming language. We go over data types, operators, pattern matching, conditionals, anonymous functions, modules, functions, the pipe operator.

Password Generator Module Project

We build a fully tested passwords generator module.

Phoenix Framework Basics

We go over the basics of the phoenix web development framework, like the directory structure of a project, routing, controllers, views and templates, databases.

Phoenix Password Generator Web App Project

We build a real-world password generator web application with the phoenix framework.

Phoenix Todo Web App Project

We build a fully-featured todo list web application with the phoenix framework.