Writing Command Line Applications with Elixir
summary
Elixir is used end to end: mix for projects and deps, escript build to produce a single executable, OptionParser for flags, and ports/porcelain to call the CoffeeScript compiler. An agent stores file timestamps, a watcher polls globs and spawns tasks to compile and concatenate ~60–70 CoffeeScript files into one application.js. The pipeline runs, tests use capture_io, and the escript works; porcelain solves the end‑of‑file port issue while rotor and FSWatch are offered as better watchers.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:47Why Elixir
- 1:42Im a Wizard
- 4:38Why
- 5:37Library
- 6:54Mix
- 8:03Hex
- 8:45Dependencies
- 9:13Umbrella Projects
- 9:55Running Mix Tasks
- 10:39Writing Command Line Applications
- 13:00Basic IO
- 13:41Capture IO
- 14:13Escape Sequence
- 14:35Files Paths
- 15:24Erlang Ports
- 15:56Basic Usage
- 16:47Interactive Ports
- 17:06Rogue
- 18:22rogueshow
- 19:57porcelain
- 20:46concurrency scalability
- 21:17tasks
- 22:23agents
- 23:24watch a path
- 24:19Agent
- 26:33CoffeeScript
- 29:04Documentation
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