Announcing RunElixir.com

hello there I have an announcement to make and I'm releasing something that I hope will help the Elixir community and will help the adoption of Elixir and that thing is called run elixir.com it is a free 30 minute Elixir quick start it is um very much a condensed version of The Elixir docks basically and I started writing this like three weeks ago after I read the RAS by example book and I also saw The Gleam language tour and I thought that is something Elixir needs as well because a lot of people nowadays they hear about Elixir they hear about life View and Phoenix and they're amazed and they want to get started with Elixir and I personally also already had the situation where people ask me well you know how do I get started you know where can I go to to learn what to do how to get started and I usually said well you know install Elixir trial life book that actually helped a lot and then start reading the Elixir Docks but um The Elixir docs they are amazing but they're also extensive and they might be overwhelming for newcomers and yes there are more or less introduction uh sections in there but also those go go very much in depth so I thought I want to create something uh that is much more condensed than that it is really only like a very like kind of like a cheat sheet for how to use the language because usually you know people who come to Elixir they already already have experience in another language so they know how to work with lists and maps and classes you know when they come from op functions and so on and they just want to translate what they know in their language into Elixir so they want to understand how do I Define a function how do I define a class or SL module um how do I you know just run an application how do I run a how do I build a website and I personally love to learn things by just doing them by just like you know diving into them uh and trying them out firsthand so that's why I wrote run Lexi and let me show you what I mean then it all becomes more clear so this is it basically this is uh written with hexs or xock and um it is hosted on netlify it's not on Hex but it's also on GitHub so if you want to contribute to this very much appreciate it um just go to GitHub create a PR and and I will review it and in the last three weeks or so I started writing this and I very much just go into the basics here I just want to like in 30 minutes give you the the a cheat sheet of the language you know how to work with list for example uh and I sometimes give a little bit more context you know for example I say well lists are actually linked list and elixir so um they're not as efficient for uh looking up stuff or for appending stuff and so on um but I try to keep it as high level as possible and then I also go to tups you know and I also just say well this this is how you can use a tuple um I very much spend a lot of time on like the the core things like Maps modules uh functions for example pattern matching um and then also I give a little introduction here like a little first how to get started with Phoenix uh tutorial so you install Phoenix you create a new project and then I um also show them how to use the uh the generator for creating a a to-do app so to say you know and I'm gonna flesh this out a little bit more but I hope you understand this whole thing is just meant for people to get started with Elixir to understand you know how can I how can I start riding Elixir within one hour however going forward I would also like this to be a very high level documentation for Elixir and the ecosystem um for example here can you can already see that I include links to how to join the community you know that's also hard when you start in a community like where can I start talking where can I talk to other Elixir developers uh how do I stay informed you know which newsletter should I join which podcast should I listen to which block should I read um and so on and then how do I find a job eventually right is there are there Elixir jobs or not and also how do I find more libraries that I can use like how does the whole dependency thing work and I actually explain that here however I also want this to become useful for existing Elixir developers that have been working with the language for a while to learn about new topics or to learn you know what else is out there but just to get just to understand the the context on the high level things and then they can go and and look at the Elixir documentation and other documentations to to learn these things in depth um for example one of the the topics that I already wrote about is the asynchronicity or asynchronous uh stuff that you can use an Elixir so I talk about the spawn the task the G service supervisor classes all these things um just to give you an introduction to how to work with asynchronous processes in Elixir and like the aing stuff is not super fancy you know I guess all of us have worked at least with the Gen server um by now but I also have other drafts for example handling state where I talk about agents which you know about probably however also things that you might not heard about or that you might not not have used before um but that might be useful for you for example uh ads well you might have heard about that but then there's also debts then there's also misure and there's even persistent term you know and all these kind of things unless you see them somewhere in the code base you might just not hear about so I just want to kind of collect and and aggregate this information um put very short demos like little life book scripts that you can use and and start working with a persistent term for example um and to just to give you this little overview here so that you can go and explore new things that you might not not have heard about all right and uh that's it this is run Elixir um try it out it's just run elixir.com uh read through the docs let me know whether I made any mistakes you know that is most like most certainly I have some mistakes in here so please correct me um go and uh look at GitHub if you want to contribute and otherwise just in general give me some feedback maybe also give me topic ideas if you want to learn about certain topics that you know you just want to have a high level context thing on that you think might be interesting for others too let me know and I'm happily I'm I will happily add it all right that's it I hope you enjoy this um share run li.com everywhere and I hope you think this is a good idea as well cheers