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Getting started with Phoenix

Basic Terminology

Install elixir from brew brew install elixir, this will also install erlang too
Mix is a build tool that provides tasks for creating, compiling and testing elixir projects
Hex is a package manager for erlang and elixir. To install or update use mix local.hex
Dependencies are defined as {:package, version}

Use mix phx.new <app-name> to generate phoenix application
Now Configure your database based on your postgres creds by using mix ecto.create
Start the server with mix phx.server