Awesome Elixir

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Actors

Libraries and tools for working with actors and such.

• exactor ⭐₆₆₄ 📅₄₉₈ — Helpers for easier implementation of actors in Elixir.
• 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.
• witchcraft ⭐₈₈₇ 📅₉₄ — Common algebraic structures and functions for Elixir.

Applications

Standalone applications.

• Phoenix Battleship ⭐₅₀₅ 📅₁₇₃₃ — The Good Old game built with Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.
• Phoenix Trello ⭐₂₄₉₀ 📅₁₇₂₆ — Trello tribute done in Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.
• poxa ⭐₉₁₃ 📅₁₁₄ — Open Pusher implementation, compatible with Pusher libraries.

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).
• oauth2 ⭐₆₂₅ 📅₆₅₃ — An OAuth 2.0 client library for Elixir.
• phx_gen_auth ⭐₇₇₄ 📅₅₂ — An authentication system generator for Phoenix 1.5 applications.
• pow ⭐₁₂₈₃ 📅₇ — Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system (Website - Doc).
• ueberauth ⭐₁₂₉₇ 📅₅ — An Elixir Authentication System for Plug-based Web Applications.

Authorization

Libraries for implementing Authorization handling.

• bodyguard ⭐₅₄₅ 📅₁₂₀ — A flexible authorization library for Phoenix applications.

Benchmarking

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

• benchee ⭐₉₉₃ 📅₁₂₇ — Easy and extensible benchmarking in Elixir!

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools.

• relx ⭐₆₃₈ 📅₃₅ — A release assembler for Erlang.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• cachex ⭐₁₀₂₆ 📅₁₄ — A powerful caching library for Elixir with a wide featureset.
• con_cache ⭐₇₈₅ 📅₈₉ — ConCache is an ETS based key/value storage.
• nebulex ⭐₇₁₇ 📅₂ — A fast, flexible and extensible distributed and local caching library for Elixir.

Chatting

Chatting via IRC, Slack, HipChat and other systems using Elixir.

• cog ⭐₉₁₀ 📅₁₀₇₁ — Cog is an open chatops platform that gives you a secure, collaborative command line right in your chat window.
• hedwig ⭐₆₁₂ 📅₁₂₃₇ — XMPP Client/Bot Framework for Elixir.(Docs).

Cloud Infrastructure and Management

Applications, tools and libraries for your own cloud service.

• erlcloud ⭐₆₃₉ 📅₃₃ — Cloud Computing library for Erlang (Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, SimpleDB, Mechanical Turk, ELB). (Docs).
• ex_aws ⭐₁₀₃₄ 📅₂₅ — AWS client, supporting Dynamo, Kinesis, Lambda, SQS, and S3.
• libcluster ⭐₁₃₇₂ 📅₂₀ — 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).
• excoveralls ⭐₆₃₇ 📅₂₄ — Coverage report tool for Elixir with coveralls.io integration.

Cryptography

Encrypting and decrypting data

• comeonin ⭐₁₁₇₇ 📅₁₅₅ — Password hashing (argon2, bcrypt, pbkdf2_sha512) library for Elixir.(https://hexdocs.pm/comeonin/api-reference.html).

CSV

Libraries and implementations working with CSV.

• nimble_csv ⭐₅₆₉ 📅₄₁ — A simple and fast CSV parsing and dumping library for Elixir.

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.
• gatling ⭐₅₀₁ 📅₁₅₇₂ — Collection of mix tasks to automatically create a exrm release from git and launch/upgrade it on your server.
• heroku-buildpack-elixir ⭐₇₆₆ 📅₁ — Heroku buildpack to deploy Elixir apps to Heroku.

Documentation

Libraries and tools for creating documentation.

• ex_doc ⭐₁₀₆₁ 📅₁₉ — ExDoc is a tool to generate documentation for your Elixir projects.
• phoenix_swagger ⭐₅₄₇ 📅₁₄₄ — Provides swagger integration to the Phoenix framework.

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.
• gen_smtp ⭐₅₉₃ 📅₄₄ — A generic Erlang SMTP server and client that can be extended via callback modules.
• swoosh ⭐₉₈₃ 📅₁₁ — 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.

Errors and Exception Handling

Working with errors and exceptions.

• OK ⭐₅₂₈ 📅₅₂₀ — Elegant error handling with result monads, featuring a simple & powerful with construct and a happy path pipe operator.

Eventhandling

Sending/Emitting and receiving/handling Events in Elixir.

• event_bus ⭐₅₈₄ 📅₁₂ — Simple event bus implementation with topic filtering and built-in event store and event watcher.

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.
• hexpm ⭐₈₁₄ 📅₁₃ — Source code for the hex package manager site built with Phoenix 1.3.
• magnetissimo ⭐₂₅₀₄ 📅₃₁₈ — Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.
• real world example app ⭐₇₉₁ 📅₅₅₉ — Elixir / Phoenix implementation of RealWorld.io backend specs - a Medium clone.

Feature Flags and Toggles

Libraries to manage feature toggles (AKA feature flags): ON/OFF values that can be toggled at runtime through some interface

• fun_with_flags ⭐₅₉₇ 📅₇₁ — A feature toggle library using Redis or Ecto for persistence, an ETS cache for speed and PubSub for distributed cache busting. Comes with a management web UI for Phoenix and Plug.

Framework Components

Standalone component from web development frameworks.

• addict ⭐₆₅₃ 📅₁₄₉₉ — User authentication for Phoenix Framework.
• 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.
• scrivener ⭐₅₁₄ 📅₈₆ — Paginate your Ecto queries.
• surface ⭐₁₃₁₅ 📅₃ — A server-side rendering component library for Phoenix.
• torch ⭐₇₀₅ 📅₆ — Torch is a rapid admin generator for Phoenix apps. It uses generators rather than DSLs to ensure that the code remains maintainable.

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• kitto ⭐₉₄₄ 📅₁₉₂ — A framework for interactive dashboards.
• n2o ⭐₁₂₆₅ 📅₂₈ — 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 📅₃ — 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.

• Crawler ⭐₇₉₇ 📅₃₉₈ — A high performance web crawler in Elixir.
• elli ⭐₆₇₀ 📅₁₂₀₅ — Elli is a webserver you can run inside your Erlang application to expose an HTTP API.
• exvcr ⭐₅₆₈ 📅₄₈ — HTTP request/response recording library for Elixir, inspired by VCR.
• finch ⭐₇₂₆ 📅₃₇ — An HTTP client with a focus on performance, built on top of Mint and NimblePool.
• gun ⭐₇₃₈ 📅₂₃ — HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and Websocket client for Erlang/OTP.
• hackney ⭐₁₁₆₁ 📅₁₅ — Simple HTTP client written in Erlang.
• httpoison ⭐₁₉₄₆ 📅₁₅₅ — Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney.
• httpotion ⭐₇₂₃ 📅₄₇₇ — Fancy HTTP client for Elixir, based on ibrowse.
• 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.

Instrumenting / Monitoring

Libraries for collecting and exporting metrics.

• elixometer ⭐₈₀₁ 📅₈ — A light Elixir wrapper around exometer.
• exometer ⭐₅₁₈ 📅₁₉₅₅ — Basic measurement objects and probe behavior in Erlang.
• telemetry ⭐₆₇₅ 📅₁₅ — Dynamic dispatching library for metrics and instrumentations.
• wobserver ⭐₉₀₉ 📅₁₄₂₀ — Web based metrics, monitoring, and observer.

JSON

Libraries and implementations working with JSON.

• ja_serializer ⭐₆₂₄ 📅₂₄₀ — JSONAPI.org Serialization in Elixir.
• jason ⭐₁₂₂₂ 📅₅ — A blazing fast JSON parser and generator in pure Elixir.
• joken ⭐₆₀₃ 📅₅₂ — Encodes and decodes JSON Web Tokens.
• jsx ⭐₆₄₄ 📅₆₁ — An Erlang application for consuming, producing, and manipulating json.
• 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.

Markdown

Libraries and tools working with Markdown and such.

• earmark ⭐₆₈₀ 📅₁₅ — Markdown parser for Elixir.

Miscellaneous

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

• AtomVM ⭐₈₇₅ 📅₁ — AtomVM allows to run Elixir/Erlang code on embedded devices such as ESP32 and STM32 microcontrollers.
• porcelain ⭐₈₂₇ 📅₂₃₈ — Porcelain implements a saner approach to launching and communicating with external OS processes from 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.

Networking

Libraries and tools for using network related stuff.

• socket ⭐₆₄₅ 📅₅₄₈ — Socket wrapping for Elixir.

ORM and Datamapping

Libraries that implement object-relational mapping or datamapping techniques.

• amnesia ⭐₆₄₅ 📅₅₄₈ — Mnesia wrapper for Elixir.
• ecto ⭐₅₁₂₀ 📅₁ — A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir.
• ecto_enum ⭐₅₃₈ 📅₂₃₉ — Ecto extension to support enums in models.
• eredis ⭐₅₉₉ 📅₈₇₀ — Erlang Redis client.
• eventstore ⭐₇₆₄ 📅₁₂ — A CQRS EventStore using Postgres for persistence, written in Elixir.
• memento ⭐₆₁₂ 📅₆₀ — Simple Mnesia Interface in Elixir.
• moebius ⭐₅₃₀ 📅₇₀₈ — A functional query tool for Elixir and PostgreSQL.
• postgrex ⭐₈₃₂ 📅₁₃ — PostgreSQL driver for Elixir.
• redix ⭐₈₄₂ 📅₂ — Superfast, pipelined, resilient Redis driver for Elixir.

Protocols

Special protocol and format libraries.

• grpc-elixir ⭐₈₈₇ 📅₂₀₉ — The Elixir implementation of gRPC.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• amqp ⭐₅₅₆ 📅₉₂ — Simple Elixir wrapper for the Erlang RabbitMQ client, based on Langohr.
• 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.
• honeydew ⭐₆₈₂ 📅₂₇ — Honeydew is a worker pool library for Elixir.
• oban ⭐₁₇₄₈ 📅₆ — Robust asynchronous job processor powered by Elixir and modern PostgreSQL.
• que ⭐₆₁₇ 📅₆₆₅ — Simple Background Job Processing with Mnesia.
• verk ⭐₆₇₄ 📅₂₃ — Verk is a job processing system backed by Redis. It uses the same job definition of Sidekiq/Resque.

Release Management

Libraries and tools for release management.

• distillery ⭐₂₈₀₀ 📅₄₈₅ — A pure Elixir implementation of release packaging functionality for the Erlang VM.
• exrm ⭐₉₃₃ 📅₁₄₅₅ — Automatically generate a release for your Elixir project.

REST and API

Libraries and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.

• maru ⭐₁₂₈₃ 📅₆₉₅ — Elixir copy of grape for creating REST-like APIs.

Security

Libraries and tools regarding security.

• Ockam ⭐₈₅₆ 📅₁₂ — 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 ⭐₁₁₄₅ 📅₁₉ — Security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• bypass ⭐₇₆₅ 📅₁₇₆ — Bypass provides a quick way to create a mock HTTP server with a custom plug.
• espec ⭐₇₃₇ 📅₂₁₃ — BDD test framework for Elixir inspired by RSpec.
• ex_machina ⭐₁₆₂₂ 📅₁₀₃ — Flexible test factories for Elixir. Works out of the box with Ecto and Ecto associations.
• faker ⭐₆₉₇ 📅₃₃ — Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
• hound ⭐₁₂₈₇ 📅₂₅₂ — Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation.
• meck ⭐₇₄₂ 📅₇ — A mocking library for Erlang.
• mix_test_watch ⭐₇₄₉ 📅₃₀ — Automatically run your Elixir project’s tests each time you save a file.
• mock ⭐₅₂₇ 📅₃₀ — Mocking library for the Elixir language.
• mox ⭐₉₀₀ 📅₂ — Mocks and explicit contracts for Elixir.
• proper ⭐₈₁₀ 📅₇ — PropEr (PROPerty-based testing tool for ERlang) is a QuickCheck-inspired open-source property-based testing tool for Erlang.
• wallaby ⭐₁₁₈₉ 📅₉₅ — Wallaby helps test your web applications by simulating user interactions concurrently and manages browsers.

Text and Numbers

Libraries for parsing and manipulating text and numbers.

• money ⭐₅₅₇ 📅₂₄ — Working with Money safer, easier, and fun, interpretation of the Fowler’s Money pattern.

Third Party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

• google-cloud ⭐₅₇₉ 📅₁ — This repository contains all the client libraries to interact with Google APIs.
• slack ⭐₅₉₇ 📅₂₁₀ — Slack real time messaging client in Elixir.
• stripity_stripe ⭐₆₃₅ 📅₂ — An Elixir Library for Stripe.

Validations

Libraries and implementations for validation of data.

• vex ⭐₅₁₅ 📅₂₂₃ — An extensible data validation library for Elixir.

WebAssembly

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

• lumen ⭐₂₄₈₆ 📅₈₂ — An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly.