Glossary

Elixir has a lot of unique vocabulary and tools. Here's what some stuff is.

Brunch

Build tool, asset pipeline, etc for frontend stuff similar to Grunt/Gulp. Included by default with Phoenix. Includes Elm support via `elm-brunch` plugin. Update: as of v1.4 phoenix has moved from Brunch to Webpack.

Cowboy

HTTP server for elixir. Uses Plug.

Earmark

Markdown parser that ExDoc uses to generate HTML from docs and moduledocs. gh

Ecto

database wrapper / ORM included with Phoenix

Elm

A functional language for webapp frontends. [elm-lang](https://elm-lang.org/)

ExDoc

ExDoc is an official Elixir project that produces HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and online documentation for Elixir projects. elixirschool/documentation

Guardian

Authentication with JWTs. elixirschool

Hex

package manager for elixir

Mix

Build tool that ships with Elixir that provides tasks for creating, compiling, testing your application, managing its dependencies and much more. Does all the things.

Phoenix

the web framework for elixir. docs

Plug

If you’re familiar with Ruby you can think of Plug as Rack with a splash of Sinatra. It provides a specification for web application components and adapters for web servers.

Poison

A JSON encoder/decoder for elixir/phoenix

Poolboy

a library for managing/limiting concurrent processes more