alnoda/erlang-elixir-workspace repository overview

⁠Erlang-elixir workspace

Containerized isolated development environment for Erlang and Elixir programming languages.

⁠Why this images

1. If you need self-hosted remote development environment.
2. If you want to be one command away from coding in Erlang, Elixir.

⁠Start

docker run --name space-1 -d -p 8020-8040:8020-8040 --restart=always alnoda/erlang-elixir-workspace

and open localhost:8020⁠ in browser.

⁠Features

• Erlang/OTP⁠
• Elixir⁠
• Kerl⁠ - easy building and installing of Erlang/OTP instances.
• Kiex⁠ - allows you to easily build and switch between different Elixir versions.
• Java workspace features⁠

⁠Links

Alnoda docs⁠
Alnoda Hub⁠

⁠Erlang

⁠Erlang shell

Erlang shell is used for testing of expressions. Start the Erlang shell from a command prompt with the command erl

having started shell, evaluate the following expressions

2 + 5.
(42 + 77) * 66 / 3.

Str = "abcd".
L = length(Str).

⁠Hello world

Go to the Quickstart page, open VS-Code and create file hello.erl with the following code

-module(hello).
-export([hello_world/0]).

hello_world() ->
  io:format("Hello, World!~n", []).

Now open Terminal, start Erlang shell with erl and execute

c(hello).

⁠Elixir

⁠Elixir shell

iex is a command which stands for Interactive Elixir.

Openn terminal, start interactive Elixir shell with iex and evaluate

40 + 8
"hello" <> " world"

⁠Scripts

Open IDE and create file hello.exs with the following code

IO.puts("Hello world from Elixir")

In terminal execute

elixir hello.exs

⁠Manage Elixir versions with Kiex

List installed versions

kiex list

List known releases

kiex list releases

Install a known release

kiex install 1.13.0

Use specific elixir version

kiex use 1.13.0