GenServers for Code Organization
Learn about the strengths of the GenServer and whether it can be used for code organization.
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Strengths of GenServer
We just saw an example that plays to all of the GenServer strengths. GenServer is a beautiful abstraction, and like anything good in the hands of an inexperienced developer, it’s prone to overuse. Let’s look at some of its properties. A GenServer does the following things:
- It encapsulates a shared service.
- It holds state.
- It allows concurrent access to shared resources.
- It handles supervision to take care of normal and abnormal startup and cleanup.
These are the problems a GenServer is built to solve. The previous ...