April 2019
Beginner to intermediate
244 pages
6h 34m
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Custom types can add an extra layer of expressiveness to your Ecto projects. They allow you to use more complex types in your Elixir code than the simpler, more universal types exposed by Ecto’s adapters. Building on an existing Ecto type gives you many of these benefits with a small amount of code, so it’s worth consideration as you’re planning out your projects.
To learn more, check out the documentation for the Ecto.Type module.[24] You might also want to explore the Hex repository[25] to look at some custom types that already exist.
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