How To Make A Todo App With Erlang
Todo apps, despite being cliche, are great learning projects. They can exemplify a basic CRUD web app architecture with a minimal amount of code. For years, I’ve felt Erlang was a little heavy handed in making small web projects compared to other ecosystems. Now, through some effort of my own, Erlang has the tools to make a competitive developer experience for making web applications.
This post will assume a basic understanding of Erlang and Web applications in general. By the end, we will have built a web JSON API backend to a todo application. Since frontend doesn’t have much to do with Erlang, and security is a bit too complex for the purpose of this post I am explicitly leaving all of that out.