Episodes for genserver

In part 2 we’ll update our application to allow users to add cryptocurrencies from the UI. Once added, we’ll display the cryptocurrency and update pricing every minute using a GenServer.

In part one of this series we’ll lay the foundation for our application. First we’ll see how we can fetch cryptocurrency prices. Then we’ll create a GenServer to store them and add it to our supervision tree.

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In this episode we’ll look at how we can use a GenServer to schedule some recurring work. We’ll create a GenServer fetches the price of a Bitcoin at a regular interval.

Get familiar with the bread and butter of concurrency in Elixir - GenServer. We’ll get started by using GenServer to manage a simple shopping list module.