Exploring Graphs with Elixir

Coding a Hello World Graph

As Elixir programmers, it’s only natural to wonder what kind of support Elixir has for working with graph technologies. Quite a bit as it turns out. A growing number of Elixir graph packages have been in active development for some time now, and they are addressing all of the major graph types.

In this book, we’re going to develop a project that will allow us to explore some of the main graph databases, graph query languages, and graph models. We’ll also look at interchanging between graph types and transforming data from one to another.

But first, let’s try something out of the box—no setup required.

Elixir comes with built-in graph support. We can use the Erlang library :digraph that ships with the Elixir distribution. ...