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<h1 class="lined-header"><span>Getting started</span></h1>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang is more than a language, it is also an operating system
-for your applications. Erlang developers rarely write standalone
-modules, they write libraries or applications, and then bundle
-those into what is called a release. A release contains the
-Erlang VM plus all applications required to run the node, so
-it can be pushed to production directly.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>This chapter walks you through all the steps of setting up
-Cowboy, writing your first application and generating your first
-release. At the end of this chapter you should know everything
-you need to push your first Cowboy application to production.</p></div>
-<div class="sect1">
+<p>Erlang is more than a language, it is also an operating system for your applications. Erlang developers rarely write standalone modules, they write libraries or applications, and then bundle those into what is called a release. A release contains the Erlang VM plus all applications required to run the node, so it can be pushed to production directly.</p>
+<p>This chapter walks you through all the steps of setting up Cowboy, writing your first application and generating your first release. At the end of this chapter you should know everything you need to push your first Cowboy application to production.</p>
<h2 id="_prerequisites">Prerequisites</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>We are going to use the <a href="https://github.com/ninenines/erlang.mk">Erlang.mk</a>
-build system. If you are using Windows, please check the
-<a href="http://erlang.mk/guide/installation.html">Installation instructions</a>
-to get your environment setup before you continue.</p></div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="sect1">
+<p>We are going to use the <a href="https://github.com/ninenines/erlang.mk">Erlang.mk</a> build system. If you are using Windows, please check the <a href="http://erlang.mk/guide/installation.html">Installation instructions</a> to get your environment setup before you continue.</p>
<h2 id="_bootstrap">Bootstrap</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>First, let&#8217;s create the directory for our application.</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight
+<p>First, let&apos;s create the directory for our application.</p>
+<div class="listingblock"><div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
by Lorenzo Bettini
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<pre><tt>$ mkdir hello_erlang
-$ cd hello_erlang</tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Then we need to download Erlang.mk. Either use the following
-command or download it manually.</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight
+$ cd hello_erlang</tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+<p>Then we need to download Erlang.mk. Either use the following command or download it manually.</p>
+<div class="listingblock"><div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
by Lorenzo Bettini
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-<pre><tt>$ wget https<span style="color: #990000">:</span>//erlang<span style="color: #990000">.</span>mk/erlang<span style="color: #990000">.</span>mk</tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>We can now bootstrap our application. Since we are going to generate
-a release, we will also bootstrap it at the same time.</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight
+<pre><tt>$ wget https<font color="#990000">:</font>//erlang<font color="#990000">.</font>mk/erlang<font color="#990000">.</font>mk</tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+<p>We can now bootstrap our application. Since we are going to generate a release, we will also bootstrap it at the same time.</p>
+<div class="listingblock"><div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
by Lorenzo Bettini
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-<pre><tt>$ make -f erlang<span style="color: #990000">.</span>mk bootstrap bootstrap-rel</tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>This creates a Makefile, a base application, and the release files
-necessary for creating the release. We can already build and start
-this release.</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight
+<pre><tt>$ make -f erlang<font color="#990000">.</font>mk bootstrap bootstrap-rel</tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+<p>This creates a Makefile, a base application, and the release files necessary for creating the release. We can already build and start this release.</p>
+<div class="listingblock"><div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
by Lorenzo Bettini
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<pre><tt>$ make run
-<span style="color: #990000">...</span>
-<span style="color: #990000">(</span>hello_erlang@<span style="color: #993399">127.0</span><span style="color: #990000">.</span><span style="color: #993399">0.1</span><span style="color: #990000">)</span><span style="color: #993399">1</span><span style="color: #990000">&gt;</span></tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Entering the command <code>i().</code> will show the running processes, including
-one called <code>hello_erlang_sup</code>. This is the supervisor for our
-application.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>The release currently does nothing. In the rest of this chapter we
-will add Cowboy as a dependency and write a simple "Hello world!"
-handler.</p></div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="sect1">
+<font color="#990000">...</font>
+<font color="#990000">(</font>hello_erlang@<font color="#993399">127.0</font><font color="#990000">.</font><font color="#993399">0.1</font><font color="#990000">)</font><font color="#993399">1</font><font color="#990000">&gt;</font></tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+<p>Entering the command <code>i().</code> will show the running processes, including one called <code>hello_erlang_sup</code>. This is the supervisor for our application.</p>
+<p>The release currently does nothing. In the rest of this chapter we will add Cowboy as a dependency and write a simple &quot;Hello world!&quot; handler.</p>
<h2 id="_cowboy_setup">Cowboy setup</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>We will modify the <em>Makefile</em> to tell the build system it needs to
-fetch and compile Cowboy:</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight
+<p>We will modify the <em>Makefile</em> to tell the build system it needs to fetch and compile Cowboy:</p>
+<div class="listingblock"><div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
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-<pre><tt><span style="color: #009900">PROJECT =</span> hello_erlang
+<pre><tt><font color="#009900">PROJECT =</font> hello_erlang
-<span style="color: #009900">DEPS =</span> cowboy
-<span style="color: #009900">dep_cowboy_commit =</span> 2.4.0
+<font color="#009900">DEPS =</font> cowboy
+<font color="#009900">dep_cowboy_commit =</font> 2.4.0
-<span style="color: #009900">DEP_PLUGINS =</span> cowboy
+<font color="#009900">DEP_PLUGINS =</font> cowboy
-include erlang.mk</tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>We also tell the build system to load the plugins Cowboy provides.
-These include predefined templates that we will use soon.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>If you do <code>make run</code> now, Cowboy will be included in the release
-and started automatically. This is not enough however, as Cowboy
-doesn&#8217;t do anything by default. We still need to tell Cowboy to
-listen for connections.</p></div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="sect1">
+include erlang.mk</tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+<p>We also tell the build system to load the plugins Cowboy provides. These include predefined templates that we will use soon.</p>
+<p>If you do <code>make run</code> now, Cowboy will be included in the release and started automatically. This is not enough however, as Cowboy doesn&apos;t do anything by default. We still need to tell Cowboy to listen for connections.</p>
<h2 id="_listening_for_connections">Listening for connections</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>First we define the routes that Cowboy will use to map requests
-to handler modules, and then we start the listener. This is best
-done at application startup.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Open the <em>src/hello_erlang_app.erl</em> file and add the necessary
-code to the <code>start/2</code> function to make it look like this:</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight
+<p>First we define the routes that Cowboy will use to map requests to handler modules, and then we start the listener. This is best done at application startup.</p>
+<p>Open the <em>src/hello_erlang_app.erl</em> file and add the necessary code to the <code>start/2</code> function to make it look like this:</p>
+<div class="listingblock"><div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
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-<pre><tt><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">start</span></span>(<span style="color: #009900">_Type</span>, <span style="color: #009900">_Args</span>) <span style="color: #990000">-&gt;</span>
- <span style="color: #009900">Dispatch</span> <span style="color: #990000">=</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">cowboy_router:compile</span></span>([
- {<span style="color: #FF6600">'_'</span>, [{<span style="color: #FF0000">"/"</span>, <span style="color: #FF6600">hello_handler</span>, []}]}
+<pre><tt><b><font color="#000000">start</font></b>(<font color="#009900">_Type</font>, <font color="#009900">_Args</font>) <font color="#990000">-&gt;</font>
+ <font color="#009900">Dispatch</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">cowboy_router:compile</font></b>([
+ {<font color="#FF6600">'_'</font>, [{<font color="#FF0000">"/"</font>, <font color="#FF6600">hello_handler</font>, []}]}
]),
- {<span style="color: #FF6600">ok</span>, <span style="color: #990000">_</span>} <span style="color: #990000">=</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">cowboy:start_clear</span></span>(<span style="color: #FF6600">my_http_listener</span>,
- [{<span style="color: #FF6600">port</span>, <span style="color: #993399">8080</span>}],
- #{<span style="color: #0000FF">env</span> <span style="color: #990000">=&gt;</span> #{<span style="color: #0000FF">dispatch</span> <span style="color: #990000">=&gt;</span> <span style="color: #009900">Dispatch</span>}}
+ {<font color="#FF6600">ok</font>, <font color="#990000">_</font>} <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">cowboy:start_clear</font></b>(<font color="#FF6600">my_http_listener</font>,
+ [{<font color="#FF6600">port</font>, <font color="#993399">8080</font>}],
+ #{<font color="#0000FF">env</font> <font color="#990000">=&gt;</font> #{<font color="#0000FF">dispatch</font> <font color="#990000">=&gt;</font> <font color="#009900">Dispatch</font>}}
),
- <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">hello_erlang_sup:start_link</span></span>()<span style="color: #990000">.</span></tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Routes are explained in details in the <a href="../routing">Routing</a>
-chapter. For this tutorial we map the path <code>/</code> to the handler
-module <code>hello_handler</code>. This module doesn&#8217;t exist yet.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Build and start the release, then open <a href="http://localhost:8080">http://localhost:8080</a>
-in your browser. You will get a 500 error because the module is missing.
-Any other URL, like <a href="http://localhost:8080/test">http://localhost:8080/test</a>, will result in a
-404 error.</p></div>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="sect1">
+ <b><font color="#000000">hello_erlang_sup:start_link</font></b>()<font color="#990000">.</font></tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+<p>Routes are explained in details in the <a href="../routing">Routing</a> chapter. For this tutorial we map the path <code>/</code> to the handler module <code>hello_handler</code>. This module doesn&apos;t exist yet.</p>
+<p>Build and start the release, then open <a href="http://localhost:8080">http://localhost:8080</a> in your browser. You will get a 500 error because the module is missing. Any other URL, like <a href="http://localhost:8080/test">http://localhost:8080/test</a>, will result in a 404 error.</p>
<h2 id="_handling_requests">Handling requests</h2>
-<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Cowboy features different kinds of handlers, including REST
-and Websocket handlers. For this tutorial we will use a plain
-HTTP handler.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Generate a handler from a template:</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight
+<p>Cowboy features different kinds of handlers, including REST and Websocket handlers. For this tutorial we will use a plain HTTP handler.</p>
+<p>Generate a handler from a template:</p>
+<div class="listingblock"><div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
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-<pre><tt>$ make new <span style="color: #009900">t</span><span style="color: #990000">=</span>cowboy<span style="color: #990000">.</span>http <span style="color: #009900">n</span><span style="color: #990000">=</span>hello_handler</tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Then, open the <em>src/hello_handler.erl</em> file and modify
-the <code>init/2</code> function like this to send a reply.</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight
+<pre><tt>$ make new <font color="#009900">t</font><font color="#990000">=</font>cowboy<font color="#990000">.</font>http <font color="#009900">n</font><font color="#990000">=</font>hello_handler</tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+<p>Then, open the <em>src/hello_handler.erl</em> file and modify the <code>init/2</code> function like this to send a reply.</p>
+<div class="listingblock"><div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 3.1.8
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-<pre><tt><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">init</span></span>(<span style="color: #009900">Req0</span>, <span style="color: #009900">State</span>) <span style="color: #990000">-&gt;</span>
- <span style="color: #009900">Req</span> <span style="color: #990000">=</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">cowboy_req:reply</span></span>(<span style="color: #993399">200</span>,
- #{<span style="color: #990000">&lt;&lt;</span><span style="color: #FF0000">"content-type"</span><span style="color: #990000">&gt;&gt;</span> <span style="color: #990000">=&gt;</span> <span style="color: #990000">&lt;&lt;</span><span style="color: #FF0000">"text/plain"</span><span style="color: #990000">&gt;&gt;</span>},
- <span style="color: #990000">&lt;&lt;</span><span style="color: #FF0000">"Hello Erlang!"</span><span style="color: #990000">&gt;&gt;</span>,
- <span style="color: #009900">Req0</span>),
- {<span style="color: #FF6600">ok</span>, <span style="color: #009900">Req</span>, <span style="color: #009900">State</span>}<span style="color: #990000">.</span></tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>What the above code does is send a 200 OK reply, with the
-Content-type header set to <code>text/plain</code> and the response
-body set to <code>Hello Erlang!</code>.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>If you run the release and open <a href="http://localhost:8080">http://localhost:8080</a>
-in your browser, you should get a nice <code>Hello Erlang!</code> displayed!</p></div>
-</div>
-</div>
+<pre><tt><b><font color="#000000">init</font></b>(<font color="#009900">Req0</font>, <font color="#009900">State</font>) <font color="#990000">-&gt;</font>
+ <font color="#009900">Req</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">cowboy_req:reply</font></b>(<font color="#993399">200</font>,
+ #{<font color="#990000">&lt;&lt;</font><font color="#FF0000">"content-type"</font><font color="#990000">&gt;&gt;</font> <font color="#990000">=&gt;</font> <font color="#990000">&lt;&lt;</font><font color="#FF0000">"text/plain"</font><font color="#990000">&gt;&gt;</font>},
+ <font color="#990000">&lt;&lt;</font><font color="#FF0000">"Hello Erlang!"</font><font color="#990000">&gt;&gt;</font>,
+ <font color="#009900">Req0</font>),
+ {<font color="#FF6600">ok</font>, <font color="#009900">Req</font>, <font color="#009900">State</font>}<font color="#990000">.</font></tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+<p>What the above code does is send a 200 OK reply, with the Content-type header set to <code>text/plain</code> and the response body set to <code>Hello Erlang!</code>.</p>
+<p>If you run the release and open <a href="http://localhost:8080">http://localhost:8080</a> in your browser, you should get a nice <code>Hello Erlang!</code> displayed!</p>
+