Hello, Elixir community, So far I have been learning, and understanding Elixir through building projects and small examples. I have seemed to notice a pattern. Elixir really shines when you build apps that work in real-time, snap of a finger right there and then. So a weather app in Elixir would be…

Hi @shansiddiqui94 ! [image] shansiddiqui94: Elixir really shines when you build apps that work in real-time, snap of a finger right there and then Not only, but especially for those cases! The tooling is just so good to work with that it makes approach challenges almost trivial. It’s really …

Hey, Thanks for responding, I was looking into replicating a bus time app using my local bus API (I am in NYC). Something I consider more challenging would be the use of PETAL stack for an application. Perhaps a well-detailed tutorial or a small guide.

Your next step might be to understand OTP, and what a process is. There are good books, documentation, and videos about it. It will reveal some secret about why realtime is “easy” in the BEAM. It’s not a project, but it takes time to understand gen_server, supervisor… [image] shansiddiqui94: …

[image] shansiddiqui94: I can see that are barely any tutorials using external API’s, probably not unheard of but rarely used. Unless I am wrong? It is not everyone’s choice, but I generally use Tesla to integrate projects with APIs, and it is so simple I do not bother to open source this cod…

Oh this is real swell, so you use Tesla to pull data from an external API and then do your simple get request. Does Elixir not have anything of that sort built in?

As part of the standard library? Not that I am aware of, but Erlang does have the :httpc module (and maybe others) that you can use for this purpose in an Elixir app. Maybe those really familiar with Erlang do this commonly, but for myself I just add Tesla to mix and go. Most decent API integrations…

My last job made very heavy use of 3rd party API calls. I wrote up a conceptual pattern I called “quest” but it’s not a beginner’s tutorial, and it never made sense to me to turn it into a library because the value is in customizing the pattern to your own needs.

[image] tfwright: As part of the standard library? Not that I am aware of, but Erlang does have the :httpc module (and maybe others) that you can use for this purpose in an Elixir app. I may be wrong, but under the hood every library ends-up using :httpc, directly or indirectly. Last time I…

Hey koko, Yes I will read up on OTP.

Thanks for the heads up. Curious that the author has not responded to your issue. Although I would imagine removing a default once it is released poses serious breakage. On the other hand, if it is true that “under the hood every library ends-up using :httpc”, maybe the argument could be made that …