Programming Elixir 1.3

Multi-app Umbrella Projects

It is unfortunate that Erlang chose to call self-contained bundles of code apps. In many ways, they are closer to being shared libraries. And as your projects grow, you may find yourself wanting to split your code into multiple libraries, or apps. Fortunately, mix makes this painless.

To illustrate the process, we’ll create a simple Elixir evaluator. Given a set of input lines, it will return the result of evaluating each. This will be one app.

To test it, we’ll need to pass in lists of lines. We’ve already written a trivial ~l sigil that creates lists of lines for us, so we’ll make that sigil code into a separate application.

Elixir calls these multi-app projects umbrella projects.

Create an Umbrella Project

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