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About Elixir

Elixir is a general purpose programming language built on top of Erlang or Ericsson language. It is very efficient for building distributed, fault tolerant appications. It's been used by many companies like Pinterest, PagerDuty, FarmBot, E-Metro Tel etc.

  • Built especially for scalable and maintanable applications.
  • Everything is an expression
  • Compiles to bytecode
  • Built-in tooling for compilation, testing, debugging, formatting code etc.
  • Erlang functions can be called directly as it get compiled to Erlang bytecode.

Syntax help

Variables

Variables must be declared and assigned a value.

variable-name = value

Data types

Data typeUsageDescription
Numericx = 21Elixir supports not only integer and float values but also a number can be defined in octal, hexadecimal and binary bases.
Atom:trueAtoms are constant values whose name is same as their value
Boolean: false, :trueEither true or false, usually declared as atoms
Strings"Hello"Strings are enclosed in double quotes(" ") and multi line strings are enclosed in triple double quotes(""" """)
Lists['a', 10, :true]Lists are used to store different types of values and are represented in square brackets []
Tuples{'apple', 100, :false}Similar to Lists and are represented in curly brackets {}. Tuples are good for accessing the values and lists are good for insertion and deletion of values

Loops

1. If:

When ever you want to perform a set of operations based on a condition If is used.

if condition do
   #Code 
end

2. If-Else:

When there is requirement to add code for false condition to IF block.

if condition do
   #Code 
else
    #code
end

3. Unless:

Unless is similar to If but the code get executed only if the condition fails.

unless condition do
   #Code 
end

4. Unless-Else:

Unless-Else is similar to If-Else but the code get executed only if the condition fails.

unless condition do
   #Code if condition fails
else
    #Code if condition satisfies
end

5. Cond:

Cond is used when you want to execute a piece of code based on multiple conditions.

cond do
   condition-1 -> #code if condition is true
   condition-2 -> #code if condition is true
   ...
   true -> #code if none of the above are true
end

6. Case:

Case is similar to switch in C language.

case value do
    value-1 -> #code if value matches value-1
	value-2 -> #code if value matches value-2
	value-3 -> #code if value matches value-3
	...
	_ -> #code if value does not match any of the above and is similar to default in switch
end

Functions

Function is a sub-routine which contains set of statements. Usually functions are written when multiple calls are required to same set of statements which increases re-usuability and modularity.

Two types of functions are present in Elixir

  1. Anonymous Functions:

Anonymous functions are functions with no name and they use fn..end constructs.

  1. Named functions:

Assign names to functions so that they can be called easily. Always named functions are defined in modules.

defmodule modulename do
    def function_name(parameter1, parameter2) do
        #code 
    end
end