Metaprogramming Elixir

Code Generation from Remote APIs

You took your metaprogramming skills to the next level with our last exercise and created a couple of essential tools to add to your Elixir arsenal. Now let’s take a break from serious work and explore just how extensible Elixir really is. We aren’t limited to generating code just from flat text files or Elixir data structures. Let’s create a Hub mix project to define a module’s functions directly from GitHub’s public API. We’ll produce a module that contains embedded information about our public repositories with the ability to launch a web browser directly to the project from a function call.

Mix Project Setup

Let’s create a new mix project to house our implementation and application dependencies. After a couple ...