Ask HN: real-world examples of HTTP servers in Elixir?

2 points by TXV 7y ago ↗ HN

I need to develop some small frontend for internal use at my company and I have absolute freedom over the tech stack.

I decided to take this opportunity to learn Elixir.

The requirements of this project are very simple. I's a server which fetches some data from another HTTP API and uses it to render a bunch of HTML pages.

I'm following the Elixir tutorials on the official site. I would like at the same time to explore a real-world project that implements my requirements, to see what a complete working application would look like.

Do you know of any such open source repo? Thank you!

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jamil7 7y ago ↗

The only one I can think of is the changelog podcast site https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com I haven't read the source but I imagine it would cover your usecase.

elcritch 7y ago ↗

It’s not an existing site, but any of the ‘make a blog in 15 min’ tutorials [1] will get you to working code examples quickly. The Elixir build utility `mix` has great tools for creating new projects and the example project will scale easily into what you want to try. Also, GenServer’s are a good way to retrieve _and_ cache the data from the other http server, following the KV supervisor tutorial would be a good starting point.

1: https://medium.com/@kacpx123/phoenix-1-3-simple-blog-api-and... 2: https://github.com/learnphoenixtv/blog 3: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/simple-extensible-blog-built...