matteopierro / elixir-plug-api-example

An example of api built using elixir and plug

Api

Trying to build an API using Elixir and Plug.

Installation

Clone the project, enter with your shell inside the directory and run:

$ mix deps.get

You need a postgres DB to run the example:

CREATE USER postgres WITH CREATEDB PASSWORD 'postgres';
CREATE DATABASE users;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE users TO postgres;
\c users;
CREATE TABLE users(name varchar NOT NULL,surname varchar NOT NULL);
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON TABLE users TO postgres;

You can then run the application as:

$ iex -S mix

then go to browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:4000/users You can run the tests as:

$ mix test

Improvements to be done

1) Extract http port
2) Use a pool_boy to handle db connections
3) App.users should return not a list but a structure