Chapter 25Third-Party Programs

This chapter talks about third-party programs, that is, Erlang programs that have been written and distributed by our users. The principal source for such programs is GitHub. In this chapter we’ll look at three popular programs that are available from GitHub. We’ll also see how to create and publicize a new project on GitHub and how to include a GitHub project in your own application. We’ll take a look at the following:

Rebar.

Rebar, written by Dave Smith, has become the de facto standard for managing Erlang projects. Using rebar, the user can create new projects, compile the projects, package them, and integrate them with other projects. Rebar is integrated with GitHub so users can easily fetch other rebar projects ...

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