If you love writing your backend services in Elixir, you might ask yourself "why can't i use Elixir for my frontend development as well?". The good news is: you can! Although ElixirScript is not a finished product and still has some limitations, Bryan Joseph has already achieved impressive results in building an Elixir to JavaScript compiler.

This tutorial app shows you how to implement a (more or less) complete Todo Application with Elixir and ElixirScript and that ElixirScript might become an ideal functional language for frontend development, which can bring back the fun into browser development!

To start the Exlir Todo App:

• Clone the GitHub repository with git clone https://github.com/grappendorf/elixir_todo_app.git
• Install dependencies with mix deps.get
• Install Node.js dependencies with npm install
• Create the database mix ecto.reset
• Start the server with mix phoenix.server

Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.