Livebook Is a Secret Weapon for Documentation

Mark Ericksen discusses the use of Livebook, an Elixir project similar to Jupyter notebooks, for documenting and exploring critical pieces of code in applications. He demonstrates how it can be used with a TicTac game application running on Fly.io. The key features of Livebook include code completion, Elixir code execution, markdown text for explanations, keyboard shortcuts for easier navigation and editing, and storage of notebook files as plain Markdown files. These features make it easy to experiment with code, execute it, and demonstrate the central idea behind an application. Additionally, Livebook supports collaborative editing and can be connected to existing Elixir projects.