Thinking Elixir Podcast
Description
In this week's news, we follow-up on Erlang's use of ExDoc with José Valim's reveal of upcoming features for ExDoc that promises to enhance documentation experiences. We'll also explore the return of the Elixir Slack inviter, now powered by a Plug app, and take a look at the latest PhoenixTest project, aiming to unify testing workflows for LiveView and static pages. Plus, we discuss adding sound effects to LiveView with Howler.js and get a sneak peek at the Nx library's newest Explorer v0.8 release, bridging Elixir to GPU operations for data exploration, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/188
Elixir Community News
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1749453086232351173 – José Valim shared insights on big plans for ExDoc, including autocompletion and cross-package search, following Erlang's adoption of ExDocs with OTP 27.
- https://elixir-lang.slack.com/archives/C03EPRA3B/p1706132703749299 – Return of the Elixir Slack inviter, now through a Plug app that redirects to Slack invites.
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir-lang.github.com/pull/1746 – Users are encouraged to help maintain the Elixir Slack community's health by contributing invite tokens.
- https://github.com/sorentwo/elixir-slack – GitHub project for the Elixir Plug application managing Slack invite redirections.
- https://github.com/dashbitco/nimble_ownership – New NimbleOwnership library for tracking resource ownership across processes, useful for isolating resource access in test suites.
- https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_test – PhoenixTest project by German Velasco to unify feature testing for LiveView and static pages in Elixir.
- https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1751971517326414063 – Announcement of the PhoenixTest project that aims to provide seamless navigation and testing between LiveView and static pages.
- https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_test/readme.html#why-phoenixtest – An explanation of the reasoning behind the creation of the PhoenixTest project for a unified testing experience.
- https://fly.io/phoenix-files/making-phoenix-liveview-sing/ – A guide on adding sound effects to LiveView pages, dealing with browser restrictions and integrating with Howler.js for user interaction.
- https://cigrainger.com/explorer-0-8-0/ – Release details of Explorer v0.8 in the Nx library, a tool for data exploration in Elixir that transitions smoothly between Elixir's syntax and GPU operations.
- https://github.com/elixir-explorer/explorer – GitHub repository for the Explorer library, part of the Nx ecosystem, that provides spreadsheet-like functionalities for Elixir.
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