Agents
Explore the concept of agents in Elixir to manage background processes and maintain state. Learn how to start agents, retrieve and update their state using Agent.get and Agent.update, and see practical examples including named agents and usage with modules for efficient state handling.
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Introduction
An agent is a background process that maintains a state. We can access this state at different places within a process, within a node, or across multiple nodes. A function sets the initial state we pass when we start the agent.
We can interrogate the state using Agent.get, passing it the agent descriptor and a function. The agent runs the function on its current state and returns the result.
We can also use Agent.update to change the state held by ...