Erlang Web App Overview

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Luke Bakken edited this page Apr 19, 2017 · 2 revisions

Overview

This series will document creation of an Erlang web application from the ground up. The goal of this application is to provide basic tracking of volunteers for a local non-profit group, based loosely on this project.

Goals

Erlang!
rebar3 as the build system. I am familiar with rebar and erlang.mk, so may as well use something different.
As a learning exercise, use minimal helper libraries to force me to implement things like session state and other features normally provided by frameworks.
Follow TDD development process as much as possible.
Nothing fancy in the UI - just HTML, CSS and HTTP