Ace

An educational Webserver for Elixir.

Hi

If you are hear send me a message twitter/gh-issue, they're all good. I want to take a deep dive into TCP/HTTP and network protocols in general, so if your curious or on a similar voyage of discovery say hi.

Cheers

Installation

Available on Hex, the package can be installed as:

Add ace to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

```elixir
def deps do
  [{:ace, "~> 0.2.0"}]
end
```

Usage

startup

From the console, start mix.

iex -S mix

In the iex console, start a TCP server.

Ace.TCP.start(8080)

Connect

Use telnet to communicate with the echo server.

telnet localhost 8080

hi
ECHO: hi

The plan

To take this obviously deficient TCP echo server that I wrote as a beginner elixir developer and create a fully fledged HTTP server.
Keep reasonable notes of progress so others can learn about how to build a web server in elixir.
See what progress I have made in a year as an elixir developer.

Ace 0.1 (TCP echo)

The simplest TCP echo server that works. Checkout the source of version 0.1.0. The change log documents all enhancements to this prototype server.

Using Vagrant

Vagrant manages virtual machine provisioning. Using Vagrant allows you to quickly get started with Ace without needing to install Elixir/erlang on you machine.

If you do not know vagrant on you machine I would suggest just installing elixir on your host machine and ignoring the instructions here.

vagrant up

vagrant ssh

cd /vagrant

From this directory instructions will be that same as users running Elixir on their machine.

Ace