The Unofficial Elixir Documentation

This is an experiment to organize the different kinds of Elixir documentation in a new way.

This site has been generated from this version of the source.

Getting started guides

• Introduction to Elixir
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Basic types
  • 3 Basic operators
  • 4 Pattern matching
  • 5 case, cond and if
  • 6 Binaries, strings and char lists
  • 7 Keywords, maps and dicts
  • 8 Modules
  • 9 Recursion
  • 10 Enumerables and Streams
  • 11 Processes
  • 12 IO and the file system
  • 13 alias, require and import
  • 14 Module attributes
  • 15 Structs
  • 16 Protocols
  • 17 Comprehensions
  • 18 Sigils
  • 19 try, catch and rescue
  • 20 Typespecs and behaviours
• Mix - a build tool for Elixir
  • 1 Introduction to Mix
  • 2 Agent
  • 3 GenServer
  • 4 GenEvent
  • 5 Supervisor and Application
  • 6 ETS
  • 7 Dependencies and umbrella projects
  • 8 Task and gen_tcp
  • 9 Docs, tests and pipelines
  • 10 Distributed tasks and configuration
• Meta-programming in Elixir
  • 1 Quote and unquote
  • 2 Macros
  • 3 Domain Specific Languages

Technical guides

• Scoping Rules in Elixir (and Erlang)