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A livebook for the basics of processes in Elixir

The basics of processes in Elixir

Examples

All you have to do is to open a Livebook server and import this notebook, by clicking on the button below.

Run in Livebook

spawn(fn -> 3 end)
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pid = spawn(fn -> 3 end)
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Process.alive?(pid)
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pid = spawn(fn -> IO.puts("Adolfo") end)
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Process.alive?(pid)
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Process.sleep(10000)
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pid =
  spawn(fn ->
    IO.puts("Starting")
    Process.sleep(10000)
    IO.puts("The end")
  end)
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# click evaluate while the process is sleeping
Process.alive?(pid)
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defmodule Example do
  def listen do
    receive do
      {:ok, "hello"} -> IO.puts("World")
      _ -> listen()
    end
  end
end
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pid = spawn(Example, :listen, [])
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Process.alive?(pid)
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send(pid, :hi)
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send(pid, {:ok, "hello"})
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