Mathieu - Kalvad

Mathieu

I do whatever needs to be done

DRY your Phoenix Templates

DRY your Phoenix Templates

Modern web development has brought a lot of changes. Something I really like is breaking your templates in small components. This is something that I had a hard time to reproduce with Phoenix but I think I have now found all the small tricks to write powerful and well-structured components.

Build your Elixir application as a self-contained binary

Build your Elixir application as a self-contained binary

During the last year, at Kalvad, Elixir has become one of our favourite language to work with. However, there are still some downsides to it and today, we will try to solve one of them: the lack of portability. This post follows another post [https://blog.kalvad.com/write-your-own-cron-with-with-elixir/] demonstrating

Write your own CRON with Elixir

Write your own CRON with Elixir

Elixir is rising in popularity and I think this is mostly due to the amazing Phoenix Framework. But for once, let's forget about WEB development and write a simple software: a complete CRON. If you are too lazy to read, you can directly check the code on Github

Phoenix Liveview - From --no-html to html & liveview

Phoenix Liveview - From --no-html to html & liveview

If you have generated your Phoenix app thinking you would never have to render HTML but realized later on you need to, you have landed at the right place. This is not something easy to do since it requires carefully adding the right components at the right place. Please note

Setup your own WebRTC system

Setup your own WebRTC system

If you are looking for a neat introduction to WebRTC and a tutorial on how to setup both the server and client side, look no further. We will go through all of this here. There is a lot to unpack so let's jump straight to the point. Disclaimer:

Step up your Elixir game

Step up your Elixir game

As you may have notice from our previous articles, we write more and more Elixir code at Kalvad. It comes very handy when we need to build scalable systems and the amazing Phoenix LiveView framework allows us to create rich and real-time web-applications. Elixir is a pure functionnal programming language

Code readability - How to stop rewriting your application every 4 years

Code readability - How to stop rewriting your application every 4 years

More than half of our clients come to us after a bad experience with an IT outsourcing company. And in this scenario, most of the time, we will simply maintain the existing application while we rewrite a new application from scratch. Because sadly, it's faster for us to

Export your Angular component as a Web Component

Export your Angular component as a Web Component

Front-end has changed a lot in the last decade. And web component is one, if not the, best feature now natively available on all the recent browsers. Here is a tutorial on how to export an Angular library into a web component. Context We had to build a dialer for

Why you should get ready for a Crystal era

Why you should get ready for a Crystal era

Lately, I have been talking a lot about Crystal - probably too much if you ask my coworkers at Kalvad. So let me explain once and for all why Crystal is such an amazing language and how it will quickly grow in popularity. Since I started to write code, I