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Mastering Elixir
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Mastering Elixir

by André Albuquerque, Daniel Caixinha
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
574 pages
14h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Adopting a consistent coding style

During your project inception, one of the most important steps is deciding on how to structure your project. The choices made here will, in the long term, affect how you maintain and evolve your application. The usage of static code analysis tools also contribute to the ease of maintenance of your project, letting you catch bugs, syntax errors and weird code style as soon as possible.

Here, we'll configure Credo to analyze our code, looking for possible refactors, common mistakes and inconsistencies and then use the Elixir 1.6 formatter to format all the code of our application.

We do not want to run our static analysis tools in production, so we will only add Credo as a dependency for the dev and test

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