Books

Ash Framework has climbed to #4 as the most used Elixir framework/library in the 2025 community survey, right behind Phoenix, LiveView, and Absinthe. Impressive rise for the youngest in the top! If you're a Phoenix developer looking to level up with Ash, the rising star that's simplifying business logic, data layers, APIs, and more, now is the perfect time! What's inside?Part 1: The Fundamentals: Master the 20% that unlocks 80% of Ash's power.Part 2: Wire Ash into Phoenix Applications: Seamless integration for your projects.Part 3: Building and Publishing Reusable Ash Extensions: Create pro-level tools like those in ash_authentication.

Built for the curious, this isn’t your average programming book—it’s nearly 500 pages of hands-on mentorship beyond coding, fusing core skills in Elixir, Ecto, and SQLite with business experience and R&D tenacity. Think of it as a $500 course distilled into one powerhouse resource, with tons of learning-by-doing, in a single project. Acquire hard skills in Elixir and database modeling with Ecto's migrations, changesets, and more, re-imagining a classic database that millions around the world have used before for learning. By fearlessly ditching the "happy path", this immersive, exploratory, memorable, project-based tutorial helps you confidently tackle real-world projects with Elixir and Ecto.

Transform chaos into order with Phoenix Product Codex: a thrilling, real-world journey of building a production-ready REST API for product data management using Elixir and Phoenix, born from the requirements of a family-run business facing a government mandate for electronic invoicing. Learn to craft and deploy a thoughtfully-designed, business-driven solution that already serves as the Single Source of Truth for two companies, while also mastering domain modeling, database design, and more in the process. No toy examples or databases here, but actual software that delivers real impact.

Following the same engineering ethos and exploratory learning approach that proved so popular with Northwind Elixir Traders , Elixir Chatbot Alchemy explores the implementation of a chatbot in Elixir and Phoenix LiveView, with data persistence in an SQLite database.

Languages covered in the book: C++, Clojure, Crystal, D, Dart, Elixir, Factor, Go, Hack, Hy, Io, Julia, Kotlin, Lua, Mercury, Nim, OCaml, Raku, Rust, Scala, and TypeScript. Start with the basics of the language and progress through functions and objects to creating programs that use parallel and concurrent features!

Elixir is a functional programming language that requires a new way of thinking. This book offers an easy introduction for any programmer who wants to start learning Elixir with confidence.

A guide to the functions available in Elixir

The journey starts with setting up the database, frontend and backend and ends with deploying the web app using docker.

The Toy Robot is a common interview exercise for new programmers. This short book will take you through how to implement it in Elixir in a BDD-style, with some great explanations and imagery along the way.