Learn Functional Programming with Elixir

Wrapping Up

That was a challenging chapter! We’ve used everything we covered in the previous chapters to build a larger application, and we faced some new concepts. Let’s review:

• We covered how to start a project with Mix and its basic commands.
• We saw how to structure the project in folders and namespaces.
• We created customized structs to describe our domain.
• We used Elixir protocols to achieve polymorphism.
• We used Elixir behaviours to create a contract between modules.

In the next chapter, the final chapter, we’ll explore a topic that we ignored in this chapter: what to do when things don’t work as expected. You’ll learn how to handle errors and unexpected events.

Your Turn

This time you won’t have exercises with a right or wrong answer. Instead ...