To get the most out of this book

As mentioned earlier, no prior knowledge of Elixir is required to read this book. In the initial chapters, we provide an introduction to Elixir, covering all the necessary concepts to be able to follow the more advanced topics explored later in the book.

To get the most out of this book we recommend that you follow along each chapter, by building and running the application we will develop in this book. To build this application, we have used free and open source software as much as possible. When this was not possible, we have used software with long trial periods, so that you can build and run the application on your own.