Live Air Setup
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The goal of the sharing to build the basic for a flight search booking with Elixir and Phoenix Framework.
This open source project is not for production but for educational purpose only
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications.
Phoenix Framework is a web development framework for the Elixir programming language.
Surface A server-side rendering component library for Phoenix Framework
Moon Design Moon Design System is a collection of reusable components build with Surface
Gigalixir is a fully-featured, production-stable platform-as-a-service built just for Elixir
Duffel API. Build an intuitive flight search, offer loyalty programme perks, add seats and bags, manage your orders, and more.
Install Asdf
We advise to use asdf in order to manage the versions for Erlang, Elixr, Node and Postres
Depending on your OS, you will find detailled intructions on Asdf offical documentation. Despite a mild complex setup, asdf has been saving a lot of time, effort and joy
On a parent folder create a file
.tool-versions
Add the following content, we are using the latest versions available
elixir 1.16.1
erlang 26.2.2
nodejs 21.6.1
postgres 15.4
Then run
asdf install
Install Phoenix
Install Hex and Phoenix
mix local.hex
mix archive.install hex phx_new
Create your project
We are now ready to create our Phoenix app
mix phx.new live_air
Lets save our project to github
cd live_air
git init
You can then commit and publish your branch. By default we name our branch “master”
Using Git is essential in this project, however we will not go over the command. If you are starting with Github, we recommend using Github Desktop for a start. I simplify, adding project, publishing, switching branches , commiting,etc
Download the final project
Full project on github