Learn Elixir by Building a Real Time CLI Chat App (Part 2)
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Builds a fully distributed CLI chat app from scratch using Elixir 1.6+ and only core libraries, wiring GenServer processes, supervision trees, and message passing so the class actually connects and chats over the network. Demonstrates fault‑tolerance, testing patterns, common gotchas, and simple game extension; shows concrete code, how many processes get spawned, which functions become bottlenecks, and whether the distributed CLI works end‑to‑end.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:54ARITY
- 5:16PIPES
- 9:15GOING WITH THE FLOW
- 11:04SIMPLE ASSIGNMENT
- 12:45MULTIPLE FUNCTION HEADS
- 17:24CASE STATEMENTS
- 18:46MIXED MATCHING
- 22:14EXERCISE MAGIC TRICK
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