Redditex - First Exercise with Elixir

[Bill Christian]

My first attempt at building an application with Elixir.

https://github.com/billc/redditex

I ported the Geddit tutorial example from Go to Elixir. Redditex pulls the most recent articles from Reddit for a given subreddit. Not extremely useful, but an educational exercise in learning and discovery. I used the excellent Programming Elixir book for learning and modeling the features, HTTPoison for simple HTTP access, and Poison for the JSON parsing. 

I had great fun and thought to share for other Elixir newbies like myself. Comments are constructive feedback appreciated. Very excited to continue with Elixir on my next code venture.

[José Valim]

Really nice!

You should definitely give a try later at concurrently fetching subreddits.

It will be a fun learning exercise to try!

José Valim

www.plataformatec.com.br

Skype: jv.ptec

Founder and Lead Developer

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[Bill Christian]

Actually, I was thinking the same to explore using Agents, Tasks, and OTP.

Thanks for the encouraging suggestion.

[Bill Christian]

I completed a new version where the CLI fetches multiple subreddits concurrently using Task.async & await. Unsure if I should have pushed the asynchronous responsibility into the Client layer or not. Feedback on the design or code is appreciated.

https://github.com/billc/redditex

On Friday, August 15, 2014 5:01:31 PM UTC-4, José Valim wrote:

[Carlos Palhares]

Thanks for sharing this! I’m also learning Elixir and your code seem like a good read. I didn’t know the OptionParser til now and I absolutely loved the way you used (not sure if it’s just the standard, but who cares…).

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Carlos Palhares

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[Bill Christian]

I would encourage you to get Dave Thomas' book Programming Elixir, currently in beta. It helped me tremendously along with the excellent Elixir Getting Started Guide and the community at large.