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I've decided to learn Elixir.

Not just poking a bit into the language but to be able to build full stack Elixir distributed applications and eventually SaaS.

I don't want to talk much about the why for now but you can find a hint or two on my social media channels.

This post aims to summarize the learning materials I've used so far and the building blocks I intend to learn about and use and I would be more than happy about your feedback and preferences here.

I'll categorize stuff a bit - here we go:

Language / General

• Elixir official website
• Elixir & Phoenix Fundamentals Full Course For Beginners on YouTube. Almost 6 hours non-stop Elixir and Phoenix learnings for free.
• ElixirCasts [2023/04/17] - not everything is free but it's worth the money if you're serious abouit Elixir / Phoenix / OTP and GenServer
• Elixir School - multilingual website packed with Elixir topics from basic to pro covering OTP, Testing, Data Processing and Storage
• Elixir Forum - Discourse community for Elixir
• Elixir Discord - Elixir community on Discord
• Elixir Track on Exercism [2023/04/15 via Fernando Canizo] - Free Elixir exercises
• ExDoc - A tool to generate documentation for your Elixir projects
• hex - Package manager for the Erlang VM
• Livebook - Share knowledge, explore code, visualize data, run machine learning models, and much more

Database

• ecto - A toolkit for data mapping and language integrated query
• postgrex - PostgreSQL driver for Elixir

Web Applications

• Plug - A specification for composing web applications with functions
• Bandit - A pure Elixir HTTP server for Plug & WebSock applications
• Phoenix Framework - Framework written in Elixir which implements the server-side Model View Controller (MVC) pattern

Scheduling

• Oban - Robust job processing in Elixir, backed by modern PostgreSQL or SQLite3

Event Sourcing / CQRS

• saga - A dependency-free tool to run distributed transactions in Elixir, inspired by Saga pattern
• commanded - Event Sourcing library for Postgres, EventStoreDB and In-memory

Messaging

• Broadway - Build concurrent and multi-stage data ingestion and data processing pipelines with Elixir

Testing

• ExUnit - Unit testing framework for Elixir.

Identity / Authentication

• Pow - A robust, modular and extendable user management solution

Cloud

• aws-elixir - AWS clients for Elixir