We cover:
You’d expect that a relatively new language would come with a fairly minimal set of tools—after all, the development team will be having fun playing with the language.
Not so with Elixir. Tooling was important from the start, and the core team has spent a lot of time providing a world-class environment in which to develop code.
In this short chapter, we’ll look at some aspects of this.
This chapter is not the full list. We’ve already seen the ExDoc tool, which creates beautiful documentation for your code. Later, when we look at OTP applications,, we’ll experiment with the Elixir release manager, a tool for managing releases while your application continues to run.
For now, let’s look at testing, code-exploration, and server-monitoring tools.