Manage the State with a State Machine
Explore how to manage application state in Elixir using purely functional state machines. Understand how to transform data through state transitions while keeping code clean and separate from business logic. Learn why state matters, the challenges of stateful web apps, and how Elixir processes like GenServer can hold long-running state without relying on databases.
We'll cover the following...
The state in an Elixir project
Handling the state is an important topic in web development these days. There are evolving ideas and practices in both the front and back-end worlds. It’s time we talk more directly about how to manage the state in an Elixir project.
The