Appendix A. Installing Elixir and Phoenix

Before you get started, you need to have Elixir and Phoenix installed in your local environment. There are many precompiled distributions available for many platforms including macOS, Unix and Linux variants, Windows, Docker, and even Raspberry Pi. Furthermore, because Elixir is open source, you can download the source code and compile it yourself if you feel so inclined.

The first thing to do is install Elixir.