Alchemist Camp Series

Advanced · 18 items

This series builds a full podcast-hosting site in Phoenix LiveView, including embedded audio players, user and admin accounts, comments, live updating content via PubSub and more. The podcast it hosted was [Reactor.am](https://reactor.am). Note: This series was deprecated multiple times before it finished, so not only is it "archived", it also includes multiple "upgrade" episodes devoted to handling breaking changes in Phoenix LiveView. I made the series due to numerous requests but in retrospect it was a mistake to do so before LiveView reached stability. For a much more up-to-date and deeper treatment of LiveView, see my book [5 Little Potions](/little-potions)

Intermediate · 8 items

This testing series starts with an episode covering TDD with basic ExUnit tests, and then moves on to building Mellow, a Trello clone using Phoenix, Vue, Saas and Webpack. It also takes a brief detour covering integration testing with Wallaby. Note: this series is unfinished at archived due to the Phoenix Trello clone episodes. The Elixir TDD with ExUnit episode and the two Wallaby episodes are much more evergreen.

Intermediate · 9 items

It's time to build a chat server! It will feature multiple rooms, basic user auth, permissions and more. We'll use the new Phoenix 1.4 channels, Webpack 4, SCSS, Babel, Cowboy 2 and Ecto 3. Note: This series is archived due to its specific focus on Phoenix 1.4. The content on channels and building chat servers is evergreen but Phoenix's front-end pipeline has changed and no longer uses Webpack. Anyone who was a member before this series was archived also has access to the [5 Little Potions](/little-potions) book, which covers many of the same concepts in LiveView for its final game. ::comment There was a secret built into the Alchemist Camp from the very beginning ::/comment ... Note: This series is archived due to its specific focus on Phoenix 1.4. The content on channels and building chat servers is evergreen but Phoenix's front-end pipeline has changed and no longer uses Webpack. Anyone who was a member before this series was archived also has access to the [5 Little Potions](/little-potions) book, which covers many of the same concepts in LiveView for its final game. There also might be something else hidden here.

Basic · 13 items

StatWatch is a project that shows off some of Elixir's more unique strengths like using GenServers for running repeated, scheduled tasks right from the web server without needing a separate cron job or external service. It branches off from episode 11 of the [Getting Started](/series/getting-started) series, builds a simple Elixir worker to regularly fetch a YouTube channel's stats via JSON, another get Alexa site ranking data via XML and connects them to a database. Finally, it goes through creating a Phoenix 1.3 app and using the previously-built modules in it, adds users, auth, pagination and more. Note: Most of this project can still be followed along with, but Alexa data is no longer available and Phoenix has had a few (though fortunately not too many) breaking changes since v1.3. If you follow this series, I suggest choosing another site to fetch stats from in place of Alexa. You'll still be starting first with the EEx-style templates in the tutorials since that's all that's built into Elixir, but you can try converting them to LiveView after creating the Phoenix app if you choose to use the current version instead of version 1.3.