Awesome Elixir

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Actors

Libraries and tools for working with actors and such.

• poolboy ⭐₁₃₅₉ 📅₈₇₃ — A hunky Erlang worker pool factory.

Algorithms and Data structures

Libraries and implementations of algorithms and data structures.

• flow ⭐₁₀₉₉ 📅₁ — Computational parallel flows on top of GenStage.

Applications

Standalone applications.

• Phoenix Trello ⭐₂₄₇₂ 📅₁₆₁₅ — Trello tribute done in Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentication schemes.

• coherence ⭐₁₂₀₆ 📅₃₇₃ — Coherence is a full featured, configurable authentication system for Phoenix. (Docs).
• guardian ⭐₃₀₀₂ 📅₄ — An authentication framework for use with Elixir applications. (Docs).
• pow ⭐₁₁₇₃ 📅₃ — Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system (Website - Doc).
• ueberauth ⭐₁₂₄₀ 📅₃₀ — An Elixir Authentication System for Plug-based Web Applications.

Cloud Infrastructure and Management

Applications, tools and libraries for your own cloud service.

• libcluster ⭐₁₂₆₂ 📅₃ — Automatic cluster formation/healing for Elixir applications.(Docs).

Code Analysis

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

• credo ⭐₃₇₆₂ 📅₂ — A static code analysis tool with a focus on code consistency and teaching Elixir. (Docs).
• dialyxir ⭐₁₂₇₉ 📅₆ — Mix tasks to simplify use of Dialyzer in Elixir projects.(Docs).

Cryptography

Encrypting and decrypting data

• comeonin ⭐₁₁₆₀ 📅₄₄ — 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 ⭐₁₇₀₆ 📅₈₆ — Cron-like job scheduler for Elixir applications.
• timex ⭐₁₃₉₃ 📅₅₉ — Easy to use Date and Time modules for Elixir.

Debugging

Libraries and tools for debugging code and applications.

• observer_cli ⭐₁₀₅₀ 📅₂₅ — Visualize Elixir & Erlang nodes on the command line, it aims to helpe developers debug production systems.
• visualixir ⭐₁₁₆₄ 📅₅₃₃ — A process visualizer for remote BEAM nodes.

Deployment

Installing and running your code automatically on other machines.

• edeliver ⭐₁₈₈₅ 📅₃₅₉ — Deployment for Elixir and Erlang.

Documentation

Libraries and tools for creating documentation.

• ex_doc ⭐₁₀₀₈ 📅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 ⭐₃₄₆₄ 📅₁₅ — Fully featured GraphQL library.

Email

Working with Email and stuff.

• bamboo ⭐₁₅₇₆ 📅₂ — 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 ⭐₂₁₉₃ 📅₀ — CMS that runs changelog.com built with Phoenix 1.4.
• elixir_koans ⭐₁₆₃₄ 📅₁₀₈ — Elixir koans is a fun, easy way to get started with the elixir programming language.
• magnetissimo ⭐₂₄₉₃ 📅₂₀₇ — Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.

Framework Components

Standalone component from web development frameworks.

• commanded ⭐₁₂₆₈ 📅₂₁ — Command handling middleware for Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) applications.
• ex_admin ⭐₁₁₇₈ 📅₁₀₄₂ — ExAdmin is an auto administration package for Elixir and the Phoenix Framework.
• plug ⭐₂₃₀₆ 📅₉ — A specification and conveniences for composable modules in between web applications.
• surface ⭐₁₁₀₄ 📅₀ — A server-side rendering component library for Phoenix.

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• n2o ⭐₁₂₅₉ 📅₁₉ — Distributed Application Server.
• phoenix ⭐₁₆₃₃₈ 📅₁ — Elixir Web Framework targeting full-featured, fault tolerant applications with realtime functionality.

GUI

Libraries for writing Graphical User Interfaces.

• scenic ⭐₁₆₀₀ 📅₁₁₂ — Portable 2D UI framework.

Hardware

Hardware related things like I/O interfaces and such.

• nerves ⭐₁₆₂₃ 📅₁ — 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 ⭐₁₄₃₄ 📅₅ — A simple HTML parser that enables searching using CSS like selectors.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP and scraping websites.

• hackney ⭐₁₁₂₂ 📅₆₈ — Simple HTTP client written in Erlang.
• httpoison ⭐₁₈₉₃ 📅₄₄ — Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney.
• mochiweb ⭐₁₇₆₉ 📅₃₇₆ — MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.
• tesla ⭐₁₃₈₇ 📅₂₆ — HTTP client library, with support for middleware and multiple adapters.

JSON

Libraries and implementations working with JSON.

• jason ⭐₁₁₆₇ 📅₆₃ — A blazing fast JSON parser and generator in pure Elixir.
• poison ⭐₁₈₂₇ 📅₉₄₄ — 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 ⭐₁₀₇₈ 📅₃₄₅ — Compiler allowing to translate Elm programming language code to Elixir.

Native Implemented Functions

Tools and libraries working with Erlang NIF.

• Rustler ⭐₂₆₆₂ 📅₁₄ — 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 ⭐₄₉₈₂ 📅₁ — A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• broadway ⭐₁₂₇₂ 📅₁ — Concurrent and multi-stage data ingestion and data processing with Elixir.
• exq ⭐₁₂₁₅ 📅₁₈ — Job processing library for Elixir - compatible with Resque/Sidekiq.
• oban ⭐₁₅₅₀ 📅₁ — Robust asynchronous job processor powered by Elixir and modern PostgreSQL.

Release Management

Libraries and tools for release management.

• distillery ⭐₂₇₄₅ 📅₃₇₃ — 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 ⭐₁₂₇₁ 📅₅₈₃ — Elixir copy of grape for creating REST-like APIs.

Security

Libraries and tools regarding security.

• sobelow ⭐₁₀₈₁ 📅₄₅ — Security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• ex_machina ⭐₁₅₆₇ 📅₁₃ — Flexible test factories for Elixir. Works out of the box with Ecto and Ecto associations.
• hound ⭐₁₂₇₄ 📅₁₄₁ — Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation.
• wallaby ⭐₁₁₂₈ 📅₃ — 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 ⭐₂₃₇₈ 📅₄₇ — An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly.