Awesome Elixir

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Actors

Libraries and tools for working with actors and such.

• poolboy ⭐₁₃₈₇ 📅₉₈₄ — A hunky Erlang worker pool factory.

Algorithms and Data structures

Libraries and implementations of algorithms and data structures.

• flow ⭐₁₁₄₆ 📅₉₉ — Computational parallel flows on top of GenStage.

Applications

Standalone applications.

• Phoenix Trello ⭐₂₄₉₀ 📅₁₇₂₆ — Trello tribute done in Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentication schemes.

• coherence ⭐₁₂₁₅ 📅₆ — Coherence is a full featured, configurable authentication system for Phoenix. (Docs).
• guardian ⭐₃₀₇₆ 📅₁₂ — An authentication framework for use with Elixir applications. (Docs).
• pow ⭐₁₂₈₃ 📅₆ — Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system (Website - Doc).
• ueberauth ⭐₁₂₉₇ 📅₅ — An Elixir Authentication System for Plug-based Web Applications.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• cachex ⭐₁₀₂₆ 📅₁₄ — 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 ⭐₁₀₃₄ 📅₂₅ — AWS client, supporting Dynamo, Kinesis, Lambda, SQS, and S3.
• libcluster ⭐₁₃₇₂ 📅₁₉ — Automatic cluster formation/healing for Elixir applications.(Docs).

Code Analysis

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

• credo ⭐₃₉₂₅ 📅₁ — A static code analysis tool with a focus on code consistency and teaching Elixir. (Docs).
• dialyxir ⭐₁₃₂₄ 📅₈₆ — Mix tasks to simplify use of Dialyzer in Elixir projects.(Docs).

Cryptography

Encrypting and decrypting data

• comeonin ⭐₁₁₇₇ 📅₁₅₅ — 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 ⭐₁₇₈₀ 📅₄₈ — Cron-like job scheduler for Elixir applications.
• timex ⭐₁₄₅₆ 📅₇₃ — Easy to use Date and Time modules for Elixir.

Debugging

Libraries and tools for debugging code and applications.

• observer_cli ⭐₁₀₈₂ 📅₄₁ — Visualize Elixir & Erlang nodes on the command line, it aims to helpe developers debug production systems.
• visualixir ⭐₁₁₉₄ 📅₆₄₅ — A process visualizer for remote BEAM nodes.

Deployment

Installing and running your code automatically on other machines.

• edeliver ⭐₁₈₉₉ 📅₄₇₁ — Deployment for Elixir and Erlang.

Documentation

Libraries and tools for creating documentation.

• ex_doc ⭐₁₀₆₁ 📅₁₉ — ExDoc is a tool to generate documentation for your Elixir projects.

Domain-specific language

Specialized computer languages for a particular application domain.

• Absinthe Graphql ⭐₃₆₂₄ 📅₁ — Fully featured GraphQL library.

Email

Working with Email and stuff.

• bamboo ⭐₁₆₈₃ 📅₅ — 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.

Examples and funny stuff

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

• changelog.com ⭐₂₂₆₆ 📅₁ — CMS that runs changelog.com built with Phoenix 1.4.
• elixir_koans ⭐₁₇₀₇ 📅₈₅ — Elixir koans is a fun, easy way to get started with the elixir programming language.
• magnetissimo ⭐₂₅₀₄ 📅₃₁₈ — Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.

Framework Components

Standalone component from web development frameworks.

• commanded ⭐₁₃₄₈ 📅₁₂ — Command handling middleware for Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) applications.
• ex_admin ⭐₁₁₉₀ 📅₁₁₅₄ — ExAdmin is an auto administration package for Elixir and the Phoenix Framework.
• plug ⭐₂₃₆₈ 📅₂₅ — A specification and conveniences for composable modules in between web applications.
• surface ⭐₁₃₁₅ 📅₃ — A server-side rendering component library for Phoenix.

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• n2o ⭐₁₂₆₅ 📅₂₇ — Distributed Application Server.
• phoenix ⭐₁₆₇₉₃ 📅₂ — Elixir Web Framework targeting full-featured, fault tolerant applications with realtime functionality.

GUI

Libraries for writing Graphical User Interfaces.

• scenic ⭐₁₆₄₃ 📅₂ — Portable 2D UI framework.

Hardware

Hardware related things like I/O interfaces and such.

• nerves ⭐₁₆₇₇ 📅₁₉ — 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 ⭐₁₅₃₄ 📅₄ — A simple HTML parser that enables searching using CSS like selectors.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP and scraping websites.

• hackney ⭐₁₁₆₁ 📅₁₄ — Simple HTTP client written in Erlang.
• httpoison ⭐₁₉₄₆ 📅₁₅₅ — Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney.
• mint ⭐₁₀₂₂ 📅₁₅ — Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2.
• mochiweb ⭐₁₇₈₆ 📅₉ — MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.
• tesla ⭐₁₄₇₂ 📅₇₁ — HTTP client library, with support for middleware and multiple adapters.

JSON

Libraries and implementations working with JSON.

• jason ⭐₁₂₂₂ 📅₅ — A blazing fast JSON parser and generator in pure Elixir.
• poison ⭐₁₈₆₈ 📅₁₀₅₅ — 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 ⭐₁₀₉₁ 📅₄₅₆ — Compiler allowing to translate Elm programming language code to Elixir.

Native Implemented Functions

Tools and libraries working with Erlang NIF.

• Rustler ⭐₂₈₁₈ 📅₁₂ — 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 ⭐₅₁₂₀ 📅₁ — A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• broadway ⭐₁₄₄₂ 📅₂ — Concurrent and multi-stage data ingestion and data processing with Elixir.
• exq ⭐₁₂₄₀ 📅₈₅ — Job processing library for Elixir - compatible with Resque/Sidekiq.
• oban ⭐₁₇₄₈ 📅₆ — Robust asynchronous job processor powered by Elixir and modern PostgreSQL.

Release Management

Libraries and tools for release management.

• distillery ⭐₂₈₀₀ 📅₄₈₅ — 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 ⭐₁₂₈₃ 📅₆₉₄ — Elixir copy of grape for creating REST-like APIs.

Security

Libraries and tools regarding security.

• sobelow ⭐₁₁₄₅ 📅₁₉ — Security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• ex_machina ⭐₁₆₂₂ 📅₁₀₃ — Flexible test factories for Elixir. Works out of the box with Ecto and Ecto associations.
• hound ⭐₁₂₈₇ 📅₂₅₂ — Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation.
• wallaby ⭐₁₁₈₉ 📅₉₅ — 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 ⭐₂₄₈₆ 📅₈₁ — An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly.