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Jeremy Ward 😎🤓
Jeremy Ward 😎🤓

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Round 1 Day 3

Keep Moving Forward

Three days ago I started the #100DaysOfCode Challenge, and today I finished elixirschool.com basics for elixir. This feels great because I started those basics over a year ago and stopped.

Quick TL;DR; for today.

Testing

  • ExUnit is built in to elixir, so I'll prolly be using that for my testing framework.
  • Test Mocks. The elixir community has an interesting take on mocking. The whole idea revolves around using "mocks" as a noun and not a verb. The concept is to keep parts of the code isolated and easier to test.
  • If you want to read more, check out the original blog post (here)[http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2015/10/mocks-and-explicit-contracts/]

Comprehensions

  • Generators:
    • are neato
    • multiple generators can be used at a time
  • Filters can be added to generators as you iterate over an Enum
    • Ex. is_even => for x <- 1..10, is_even(x), do: x

Strings

  • Prolly never gonna need to use Graphemes or Codepoints

Time

  • Time.utc_now returns a "Time Struct" ~T[19:39:31.056226]
  • Date.utc_today returns a "Date Struct" ~D[2021-02-15]
  • NaiveDateTime feels .... useless. Its Date + Time with no timezone /shrug
  • I'll prolly most likly use DateTime instead.

Custom Mix Tasks

  • Are located in lib/mix/tasks/*.ex
  • When creating a Task you have to use the macro use Mix.Task
  • Mix tasks do not autoload dependencies

iEX Helpers (cool things about the REPL)

  • Tab autocomplete
  • .iex.exs is a local file to configure the repl
  • h Module or Function renders the docs
  • r Module will recompile the module

Tada. Day 3. Fin.
If you want to reach out, you can find me on (The Tweeters)[https://twitter.com/basicbrogrammer]

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