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Building APIs - EMX 181

Elixir Mix

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Is There a Way to Write an HTTP Client?

Sasha: I've been using GraphQL since before Absent was actually published. It's great in certain scenarios, but I would love to cover more like you said, like the more RESTy parts of it. And at some point you also very likely will have to provide an API, you'll have to design an API and elixir is a good place to start. Sasha: Some people are very hardcore plug cowboy only, like just use cowboy and a plug.cowboy package and run that as an application in supervision tree because cowboy itself provides you with concurrency where every request is its own process.

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