Funny Konstantin  May 18, 2023
Just discovered something really cool about #elixir.

Using IEx (the interactive elixir terminal app), it's possible to install and test any package without having to create a project.

So, for example, let's imagine you need to quickly play with a library. In IEx, you can run `Mix.install([{library_name: 1.0.0}])` and voilà, it's ready for use! I discovered this earlier when I wanted to see what methods are available inside EU's VAT check SOAP endpoint, and there is a library called elixir-soap that can help... 🚀

PS. If the library requires some configuration, there is Application.put_env/2 that can help set that up (so no need to create config.exs).
Show threadMichał Szajbe

@konstantin It’s also very useful when writing scripts with elixir

#!/usr/bin/env elixir Mix.install(...)
May 23, 2023 at 9:40pmWeb
Show threadFunny Konstantin  May 24, 2023
@szajbus yes, I love that! It makes it very easy to use Elixir for all kinds of things on a system. For a cloud app I've been working on, I initially went with bash for the deployment script (that installs it on a VPS node) but later I migrated to using exs!