We talk with Ricardo Trindade about learning Elixir and GraphQL. We discuss learning on personal interest projects, GraphQL vs REST, executing Ruby or Python from Elixir, helpful learning resources and much more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/5

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/msaraiva/surface – The Surface Library recently proposed scoped CSS
https://twitter.com/pressy4pie/status/1281409111108669440 – Conner and Frank were able to spike up a Flutter UI on top of Nerves
Lots of small project updates
https://changelog.com/podcast/402 – Jose Valim was interviewed on the Changelog podcast episode 402
Elixir master updated. Calendar module; added is_exception guard which builds upon the is_struct guard recently added.
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/10157 – Elixir now pulls git dependencies by their default branch instead of assuming the master branch, if the branch is not specified.
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – The proposed runtime.exs file change was merged.
https://sorentwo.com/2020/06/12/announcing-oban-pro.html – Oban 2.0 and the Introduction of Oban Web+Pro
https://elixirsurvey.typeform.com/to/yYmJv1 – Reminder to fill out the Elixir ecosystem survey! Open until August 11th.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

https://marleyspoon.com/
https://medium.com/@ricardo.trindade743/building-an-animal-crossing-new-horizons-graphql-api-in-elixir-c304cef7ad30 – Ricardo’s blog post about building a GraphQL API
https://animal-crossing.com/new-horizons/ – The Nintendo Switch game being discussed
https://graphql-code-generator.com/ – Tool for building GraphQL frontend client code
https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootcamp-and-tutorial/ – Udemy training course
https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html
https://github.com/route/mogrify – Elixir wrapper for ImageMagick command line
http://erlport.org/ – ErlPort - connect Erlang to other languages
https://github.com/hdima/erlport – ErlPort - on Github
https://github.com/weatherforce/erlport – ErlPort fork Mark is using
https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/docs-tests-and-with.html – Elixir doctest feature
https://pragprog.com/titles/tvmelixir/ – Book - Adopting Elixir
https://book.productionreadygraphql.com/ – Book - Production Ready GraphQL
https://thinkingelixir.com/available-courses/pattern-matching/ – Learning Elixir? Pattern matching is a big foundational piece. This FREE course helps you get that “super power” feeling and helps you “get it” faster and more completely. I’m giving this away because I want everyone to have access to it.

Guest Information

https://github.com/RicardoTrindade/ – on Github
https://www.ricardo-trindade.com/ – Blog

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5: Learning Elixir with Ricardo Trindade

Thinking Elixir Podcast

5: Learning Elixir with Ricardo Trindade