Awesome Elixir

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Actors

Libraries and tools for working with actors and such.

• poolboy ⭐₁₄₂₉ 📅₁₂₀₁ — A hunky Erlang worker pool factory.

Algorithms and Data structures

Libraries and implementations of algorithms and data structures.

• flow ⭐₁₂₂₅ 📅₁₁ — Computational parallel flows on top of GenStage.

Applications

Standalone applications.

• Phoenix Trello ⭐₂₄₉₃ 📅₁₉₄₃ — Trello tribute done in Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentication schemes.

• coherence ⭐₁₂₂₄ 📅₂₂₂ — Coherence is a full featured, configurable authentication system for Phoenix. (Docs).
• guardian ⭐₃₁₆₂ 📅₂₆ — An authentication framework for use with Elixir applications. (Docs).
• pow ⭐₁₃₇₄ 📅₇₄ — Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system (Website - Doc).
• ueberauth ⭐₁₃₅₈ 📅₉₄ — An Elixir Authentication System for Plug-based Web Applications.

Benchmarking

Running code to see how long it takes, which is faster and/or if improvements have been made.

• benchee ⭐₁₀₅₆ 📅₃₄₃ — Easy and extensible benchmarking in Elixir!

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• cachex ⭐₁₁₂₉ 📅₁₅₄ — A powerful caching library for Elixir with a wide featureset.

Cloud Infrastructure and Management

Applications, tools and libraries for your own cloud service.

• ex_aws ⭐₁₁₁₄ 📅₁ — AWS client, supporting Dynamo, Kinesis, Lambda, SQS, and S3.
• libcluster ⭐₁₄₉₈ 📅₁ — Automatic cluster formation/healing for Elixir applications.(Docs).

Code Analysis

Libraries and tools for code base analysis, parsing, and manipulation.

• credo ⭐₄₁₇₃ 📅₂ — A static code analysis tool with a focus on code consistency and teaching Elixir. (Docs).
• dialyxir ⭐₁₃₉₆ 📅₂ — Mix tasks to simplify use of Dialyzer in Elixir projects.(Docs).

Cryptography

Encrypting and decrypting data

• comeonin ⭐₁₂₁₇ 📅₃₇₂ — Password hashing (argon2, bcrypt, pbkdf2_sha512) library for Elixir.(https://hexdocs.pm/comeonin/api-reference.html).

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• quantum ⭐₁₉₁₅ 📅₈ — Cron-like job scheduler for Elixir applications.
• timex ⭐₁₅₄₅ 📅₂₇ — Easy to use Date and Time modules for Elixir.

Debugging

Libraries and tools for debugging code and applications.

• observer_cli ⭐₁₁₃₇ 📅₁₃₂ — Visualize Elixir & Erlang nodes on the command line, it aims to helpe developers debug production systems.
• visualixir ⭐₁₂₃₀ 📅₈₆₁ — A process visualizer for remote BEAM nodes.

Deployment

Installing and running your code automatically on other machines.

• edeliver ⭐₁₉₁₇ 📅₆₈₈ — Deployment for Elixir and Erlang.

Documentation

Libraries and tools for creating documentation.

• ex_doc ⭐₁₁₄₅ 📅₁ — ExDoc is a tool to generate documentation for your Elixir projects.

Domain-specific language

Specialized computer languages for a particular application domain.

• Absinthe Graphql ⭐₃₈₂₈ 📅₁ — Fully featured GraphQL library.

Email

Working with Email and stuff.

• bamboo ⭐₁₇₅₅ 📅₁₄₅ — Composable, testable and adapter based email library. Out of the box support for rendering with Phoenix and a plug for previewing sent emails in dev.
• swoosh ⭐₁₁₂₈ 📅₃ — Compose, deliver and test your Emails (with attachments!) easily in Elixir with adapters for SMTP, Sendgrid, Mandrill, Mailgun, Postmark and lots others, plus Phoenix integration with mailbox preview.

Examples and funny stuff

Example code and stuff too funny or curious not to mention.

• changelog.com ⭐₂₃₆₂ 📅₂ — CMS that runs changelog.com built with Phoenix 1.4.
• elixir_koans ⭐₁₇₉₄ 📅₁₈₂ — Elixir koans is a fun, easy way to get started with the elixir programming language.
• magnetissimo ⭐₂₅₅₉ 📅₅₃₅ — Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.

Framework Components

Standalone component from web development frameworks.

• commanded ⭐₁₄₄₆ 📅₁₂ — Command handling middleware for Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) applications.
• ex_admin ⭐₁₁₉₀ 📅₁₃₇₀ — ExAdmin is an auto administration package for Elixir and the Phoenix Framework.
• plug ⭐₂₄₆₆ 📅₃₃ — A specification and conveniences for composable modules in between web applications.
• surface ⭐₁₅₄₇ 📅₆ — A server-side rendering component library for Phoenix.

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• n2o ⭐₁₂₈₁ 📅₂₀ — Distributed Application Server.
• phoenix ⭐₁₇₅₅₃ 📅₄ — Elixir Web Framework targeting full-featured, fault tolerant applications with realtime functionality.

GUI

Libraries for writing Graphical User Interfaces.

• scenic ⭐₁₇₂₅ 📅₄₅ — Portable 2D UI framework.

Hardware

Hardware related things like I/O interfaces and such.

• nerves ⭐₁₇₉₀ 📅₂ — Framework for building firmware for platforms like Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black.

HTML

Libraries and implementations working with HTML (for xml tools please go to the XML section).

• floki ⭐₁₆₅₂ 📅₁ — A simple HTML parser that enables searching using CSS like selectors.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP and scraping websites.

• hackney ⭐₁₂₀₇ 📅₁₁₃ — Simple HTTP client written in Erlang.
• httpoison ⭐₂₀₁₂ 📅₇₄ — Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney.
• mint ⭐₁₁₀₀ 📅₂₇ — Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2.
• mochiweb ⭐₁₈₀₂ 📅₁₄₈ — MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.
• tesla ⭐₁₅₉₅ 📅₃₃ — HTTP client library, with support for middleware and multiple adapters.

JSON

Libraries and implementations working with JSON.

• jason ⭐₁₃₁₅ 📅₂₉ — A blazing fast JSON parser and generator in pure Elixir.
• poison ⭐₁₉₀₀ 📅₅₃ — Poison is a new JSON library for Elixir focusing on wicked-fast speed without sacrificing simplicity, completeness, or correctness.

Languages

Languages built on top of Elixir.

• Elchemy ⭐₁₁₁₇ 📅₆₇₃ — Compiler allowing to translate Elm programming language code to Elixir.

Native Implemented Functions

Tools and libraries working with Erlang NIF.

• Rustler ⭐₃₀₈₆ 📅₁₆ — Library for writing NIFs for Erlang or Elixir safely in Rust. No segfaults.

ORM and Datamapping

Libraries that implement object-relational mapping or datamapping techniques.

• ecto ⭐₅₃₃₃ 📅₁ — A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• broadway ⭐₁₇₁₉ 📅₇ — Concurrent and multi-stage data ingestion and data processing with Elixir.
• exq ⭐₁₃₁₂ 📅₃₀ — Job processing library for Elixir - compatible with Resque/Sidekiq.
• oban ⭐₂₀₆₇ 📅₁ — Robust asynchronous job processor powered by Elixir and modern PostgreSQL.

Release Management

Libraries and tools for release management.

• distillery ⭐₂₈₆₉ 📅₇₀₁ — A pure Elixir implementation of release packaging functionality for the Erlang VM.

REST and API

Libraries and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.

• maru ⭐₁₂₉₇ 📅₉₁₁ — Elixir copy of grape for creating REST-like APIs.

Security

Libraries and tools regarding security.

• Ockam ⭐₁₇₈₇ 📅₆ — A suite of tools, programming libraries and infrastructure that make it easy to build devices that communicate securely, privately and trustfully with cloud services and other devices. Docs .
• sobelow ⭐₁₂₂₄ 📅₈₅ — Security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• ex_machina ⭐₁₇₀₀ 📅₃₂₀ — Flexible test factories for Elixir. Works out of the box with Ecto and Ecto associations.
• hound ⭐₁₃₀₆ 📅₄₆₉ — Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation.
• mox ⭐₁₀₀₀ 📅₁₃ — Mocks and explicit contracts for Elixir.
• wallaby ⭐₁₂₇₇ 📅₉₁ — Wallaby helps test your web applications by simulating user interactions concurrently and manages browsers.

WebAssembly

Libraries for running WebAssembly (WASM) in Elixir or running Elixir on WebAssembly.

• lumen ⭐₂₇₆₇ 📅₂₉₈ — An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly.