Elixir Getting Started

Elixir ↗ is an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, which is designed to build scalable network applications.

As said, there is no need for coding yet, we have created a Github repository ↗, a recipe, containing the most simple Elixir web application. The repo will be used as a source from which the app will be built.

🚀Feel free to deploy the recipe yourself

This is the most bare-bones example of Elixir app running on Zerops — as few libraries as possible, just a simple endpoint with connect, read and write to a Zerops PostgreSQL database.

Log in/sign up to Zerops GUI ↗
In the Projects box click on Import a project and paste in the following yml config (source ↗):

project:
  name: recipe-elixir
  tags:
    - zerops-recipe

services:
  - hostname: api
    type: elixir@1.16
    enableSubdomainAccess: true
    buildFromGit: https://github.com/zeropsio/recipe-elixir

  - hostname: db
    type: postgresql@16
    mode: NON_HA
    priority: 1

Click on Import project and wait until all pipelines have finished.

That's it, your application is now up and running! ⭐ Let's check it works:

A subdomain should have been enabled and visible in the project's IP addressed & Public Routing Overview box. Its format should look similar to this https://api-808-4000.prg1.zerops.app.
Click or the subdomain URL to open it in a browser and you should see

{"message":"This is a simple Elixir application running on Zerops.io, each request adds an entry to the PostgreSQL database and returns a count. See the source repository (https://github.com/zeropsio/recipe-elixir) for more information.","newEntry":"e64be640-d6c2-4be8-93ac-d1e40e56fa06","count":1}

Tip

Do you have any questions? Check the step-by-step tutorial, browse the documentation and join our Discord community to get help from our team and other members.

How to start

It doesn't matter whether it's your first curious introduction to Zerops, you have already mastered the basics and are looking for a tiny detail or inspiration. Below, choose a section that fits your needs:

New to Zerops?

There is no better way to start than to try it yourself.

Care for details?

Dive in all Zerops has to offer for your Elixir application.

Elixir recipes

Get inspired by already existing repositories, ready to be imported to Zerops.