Build It With Nitrogen: The Fast-Off-the-Block Erlang Web Framework
Build It With Nitrogen: The Fast-Off-the-Block Erlang Web Framework
About the Book
Web development has never been more challenging. The Internet is intensely competitive and treacherous. Site malfunction and downtime are unacceptable. Clients demand ever more features with ever tighter deadlines. Popular sites must scale to handle unpredictable traffic spikes.
Build It with Nitrogen: the Fast Off the Block Erlang Web Framework addresses these issues and more. It assumes minimal Linux or JavaScript skills. The easy to-read book guides the reader through seven hands-on projects. Each project builds on the last toward high-level competency. Readers learn Erlang as they go. "Nitrogen simplifies development of web applications, making simple things easy and difficult things manageable," says Zotonic CMS creator Marc Worrell.
"This book is ambitious," says Nitrogen creator Rusty Klophaus, "It covers not only Nitrogen and Erlang, but also a bit of OTP, databases, git, web design, and software engineering best practices. And somehow, it does this well by building up from simple concepts in a sort of 'Socratic dialogue'---if Socrates had a 'California surfer' sense of humor."
Nitrogen Project Homepage: nitrogenproject.com
Nitrogen on Github: github.com/nitrogen/nitrogen
About the Authors
Reader Testimonials
Marc Worrell
creator, Zotonic CMS
This book is exactly what I wish existed when I started with Nitrogen and Erlang for the web. Takes you by the hand and explains Erlang, Nitrogen, databases and much more. Everything comes together to make your own fast dynamic web site. Erlang and the web are a match made in heaven.
Francesco Cesarini
Erlang Solutions
...love it. 'Love it' is probably an understatement.
Steve Vinoski
Yaws maintainer
Nitrogen simplifies development of web applications, making simple things easy and difficult things manageable. This book does the same. Projects present Nitrogen concepts and features in an iterative workflow that matches the way developers work. Developers will appreciate its many examples, its streamlined presentation, and numerous references to related material.
Evan Miller
creator, Chicago Boss
...a delightful and informative book that delivers the promise of the real-time web, combining colorful examples with battle-tested Erlang technology.
Frank Müller
Erlang programmer
An endless stream of real-world code samples on how to develop solid Erlang web applications with the Nitrogen framework. A real pleasure to read.
Alain O’Dea
Infrastructure and Security Manager, Sequence Bio
I felt like the hero in an adventure story joining the characters and facing the challenges as a team. The fact that I learned about Nitrogen and web security was almost an after thought. I even learned how to extend Nitrogen with plugins! Serious learning wrapped in a fresh, fun package that kept me reading to the end.
Loïc Hoguin
creator, Cowboy webserver
...goes into great detail about Nitrogen and Erlang/OTP. Examples are simple yet functional with fictional dialogues bringing humor along the way. Nitrogen seems to be good for writing highly interactive Web applications entirely controlled from the server-side.
Alex Popov Jr.
Very fun book. Too many programming books are dry. Yours is just a joy to read.
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