Learn Functional Programming with Elixir

Starting Your Project with Mix

Mix is a command-line interface (CLI) tool that provides the essentials for building any Elixir application. Mix helps you create and maintain Elixir projects, providing tasks to compile, debug, test, and manage dependencies and your environment. All Elixir libraries and applications were built with Mix. It comes by default with Elixir; you don’t need to install anything new. We’ll use Mix CLI tasks to create the initial setup of the game, and the Mix module guidelines to build a command-line task to run the game. These are the essential features to build our small project. You can find other useful features in the Mix official documentation.^[31] We’ll begin by making sure we understand the application we’ll build. ...