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Standalone HTTP Server in Elixir with Bandit
11 projects | dev.to | 3 Jun 2026

The idea here is not to follow blindly the Phoenix framework documentation and to create yet another website-like-project, but just to learn how to use bandit API, a bit like I did in a previous publication on cowboy. Let start our journey by creating a new Elixir library called desperados. It will contain all our experiments.