Awesome Elixir

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Actors

Libraries and tools for working with actors and such.

• poolboy ⭐₁₄₇₀ 📅₁₅₁₆ — A hunky Erlang worker pool factory.

Algorithms and Data structures

Libraries and implementations of algorithms and data structures.

• flow ⭐₁₃₂₆ 📅₂₃₀ — Computational parallel flows on top of GenStage.
• witchcraft ⭐₁₁₁₉ 📅₂₉₉ — Common algebraic structures and functions for Elixir.

Applications

Standalone applications.

• Phoenix Trello ⭐₂₄₉₅ 📅₂₂₅₈ — Trello tribute done in Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.

Artificial Intelligence

When your code becomes smarter than you.

• Axon ⭐₁₀₈₇ 📅₁ — Nx-powered Neural Networks
• m2cgen ⭐₂₂₇₄ 📅₅₅ — A CLI tool to transpile trained classic ML models into a native Elixir code with zero dependencies.
• Nx ⭐₁₉₈₃ 📅₅ — Multi-dimensional arrays (tensors) and numerical definitions for Elixir.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentication schemes.

• coherence ⭐₁₂₂₉ 📅₅₃₇ — Coherence is a full featured, configurable authentication system for Phoenix. (Docs).
• guardian ⭐₃₂₅₆ 📅₅ — An authentication framework for use with Elixir applications. (Docs).
• pow ⭐₁₄₃₆ 📅₅₁ — Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system (Website - Doc).
• ueberauth ⭐₁₄₃₆ 📅₇₇ — 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 ⭐₁₂₁₄ 📅₁₆₄ — Easy and extensible benchmarking in Elixir!

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• cachex ⭐₁₂₇₀ 📅₇ — 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 ⭐₁₁₇₁ 📅₁ — AWS client, supporting Dynamo, Kinesis, Lambda, SQS, and S3.
• libcluster ⭐₁₆₅₃ 📅₃₁₅ — Automatic cluster formation/healing for Elixir applications.(Docs).

Code Analysis

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

• credo ⭐₄₄₈₃ 📅₁₁ — A static code analysis tool with a focus on code consistency and teaching Elixir. (Docs).
• dialyxir ⭐₁₄₈₉ 📅₂₂ — Mix tasks to simplify use of Dialyzer in Elixir projects.(Docs).

Cryptography

Encrypting and decrypting data

• comeonin ⭐₁₂₃₇ 📅₃₁₄ — 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 ⭐₂₀₄₇ 📅₇ — Cron-like job scheduler for Elixir applications.
• timex ⭐₁₆₂₅ 📅₁₁₃ — Easy to use Date and Time modules for Elixir.

Debugging

Libraries and tools for debugging code and applications.

• observer_cli ⭐₁₂₁₈ 📅₇ — Visualize Elixir & Erlang nodes on the command line, it aims to helpe developers debug production systems.
• visualixir ⭐₁₂₆₀ 📅₁₁₇₆ — A process visualizer for remote BEAM nodes.

Deployment

Installing and running your code automatically on other machines.

• edeliver ⭐₁₉₃₉ 📅₁₄₅ — Deployment for Elixir and Erlang.

Documentation

Libraries and tools for creating documentation.

• ex_doc ⭐₁₂₅₃ 📅₅ — ExDoc is a tool to generate documentation for your Elixir projects.

Domain-specific language

Specialized computer languages for a particular application domain.

• Absinthe Graphql ⭐₄₀₄₇ 📅₁ — Fully featured GraphQL library.

Email

Working with Email and stuff.

• bamboo ⭐₁₈₂₃ 📅₃₀₀ — 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 ⭐₁₂₂₇ 📅₇ — 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 ⭐₂₄₇₆ 📅₁ — CMS that runs changelog.com built with Phoenix 1.4.
• elixir_koans ⭐₁₉₂₁ 📅₁₆₁ — Elixir koans is a fun, easy way to get started with the elixir programming language.
• magnetissimo ⭐₂₆₀₃ 📅₈₅₀ — Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.

Framework Components

Standalone component from web development frameworks.

• commanded ⭐₁₆₂₅ 📅₆ — Command handling middleware for Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) applications.
• ex_admin ⭐₁₁₈₉ 📅₁₆₈₅ — ExAdmin is an auto administration package for Elixir and the Phoenix Framework.
• plug ⭐₂₅₉₆ 📅₁₁ — A specification and conveniences for composable modules in between web applications.
• surface ⭐₁₇₇₀ 📅₂₉ — A server-side rendering component library for Phoenix.

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• n2o ⭐₁₃₀₇ 📅₈ — Distributed Application Server.
• phoenix ⭐₁₈₈₂₇ 📅₁ — Elixir Web Framework targeting full-featured, fault tolerant applications with realtime functionality.

GUI

Libraries for writing Graphical User Interfaces.

• scenic ⭐₁₈₀₉ 📅₃ — Portable 2D UI framework.

Hardware

Hardware related things like I/O interfaces and such.

• nerves ⭐₁₉₄₁ 📅₈ — 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 ⭐₁₇₉₈ 📅₇ — A simple HTML parser that enables searching using CSS like selectors.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP and scraping websites.

• hackney ⭐₁₂₅₀ 📅₃₆ — Simple HTTP client written in Erlang.
• httpoison ⭐₂₁₀₄ 📅₄₁ — Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney.
• mint ⭐₁₁₈₂ 📅₁₀₃ — Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2.
• mochiweb ⭐₁₈₂₄ 📅₄₉ — MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.
• tesla ⭐₁₇₅₅ 📅₄₉ — HTTP client library, with support for middleware and multiple adapters.

JSON

Libraries and implementations working with JSON.

• jason ⭐₁₃₉₆ 📅₄₄ — A blazing fast JSON parser and generator in pure Elixir.
• poison ⭐₁₉₅₁ 📅₃₆₈ — 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 ⭐₁₁₃₄ 📅₉₈₇ — Compiler allowing to translate Elm programming language code to Elixir.

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries or tools that don’t fit in the categories above.

• AtomVM ⭐₁₀₆₈ 📅₁ — AtomVM allows to run Elixir/Erlang code on embedded devices such as ESP32 and STM32 microcontrollers.

Native Implemented Functions

Tools and libraries working with Erlang NIF.

• Rustler ⭐₃₅₀₄ 📅₂₀ — Library for writing NIFs for Erlang or Elixir safely in Rust. No segfaults.

Networking

Libraries and tools for using network related stuff.

• Firezone ⭐₃₂₅₃ 📅₁ — Open-source VPN server and egress firewall for Linux built on WireGuard. Firezone is easy to set up (all dependencies are bundled thanks to Chef Omnibus), secure, performant, and self hostable.

ORM and Datamapping

Libraries that implement object-relational mapping or datamapping techniques.

• ecto ⭐₅₆₃₃ 📅₄ — A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir.

Protocols

Special protocol and format libraries.

• grpc-elixir ⭐₁₁₅₅ 📅₂₈ — The Elixir implementation of gRPC.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• broadway ⭐₁₉₅₆ 📅₇ — Concurrent and multi-stage data ingestion and data processing with Elixir.
• exq ⭐₁₃₈₃ 📅₄ — Job processing library for Elixir - compatible with Resque/Sidekiq.
• oban ⭐₂₃₉₄ 📅₈ — Robust asynchronous job processor powered by Elixir and modern PostgreSQL.

Release Management

Libraries and tools for release management.

• distillery ⭐₂₉₁₁ 📅₁₀₁₆ — 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 ⭐₁₃₁₀ 📅₁₂₂₆ — Elixir copy of grape for creating REST-like APIs.

Security

Libraries and tools regarding security.

• Ockam ⭐₂₆₇₆ 📅₃₃ — 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 ⭐₁₃₄₄ 📅₄₀₀ — Security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• ex_machina ⭐₁₇₈₅ 📅₃₄ — Flexible test factories for Elixir. Works out of the box with Ecto and Ecto associations.
• hound ⭐₁₃₁₅ 📅₇₈₄ — Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation.
• mox ⭐₁₁₃₉ 📅₃₀ — Mocks and explicit contracts for Elixir.
• wallaby ⭐₁₄₁₆ 📅₂₀ — 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 ⭐₃₀₈₆ 📅₇₈ — An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly.