Awesome Elixir

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Actors

Libraries and tools for working with actors and such.

• exactor ⭐₆₆₃ 📅₃₈₆ — Helpers for easier implementation of actors in Elixir.
• 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.
• witchcraft ⭐₈₆₀ 📅₅₃₅ — Common algebraic structures and functions for Elixir.

Applications

Standalone applications.

• Phoenix Battleship ⭐₅₀₂ 📅₁₆₂₂ — The Good Old game built with Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.
• Phoenix Trello ⭐₂₄₇₂ 📅₁₆₁₅ — Trello tribute done in Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.
• poxa ⭐₈₈₉ 📅₂ — Open Pusher implementation, compatible with Pusher libraries.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentication schemes.

• coherence ⭐₁₂₀₆ 📅₃₇₄ — Coherence is a full featured, configurable authentication system for Phoenix. (Docs).
• guardian ⭐₃₀₀₂ 📅₄ — An authentication framework for use with Elixir applications. (Docs).
• oauth2 ⭐₆₁₃ 📅₅₄₂ — An OAuth 2.0 client library for Elixir.
• phx_gen_auth ⭐₆₇₅ 📅₄ — An authentication system generator for Phoenix 1.5 applications.
• pow ⭐₁₁₇₃ 📅₃ — Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system (Website - Doc).
• ueberauth ⭐₁₂₄₀ 📅₃₀ — An Elixir Authentication System for Plug-based Web Applications.

Authorization

Libraries for implementing Authorization handling.

• bodyguard ⭐₅₀₅ 📅₈ — 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 ⭐₉₅₄ 📅₁₅ — Easy and extensible benchmarking in Elixir!

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools.

• relx ⭐₆₂₈ 📅₆ — A release assembler for Erlang.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• cachex ⭐₉₆₃ 📅₂ — A powerful caching library for Elixir with a wide featureset.
• con_cache ⭐₇₅₅ 📅₅₅₆ — ConCache is an ETS based key/value storage.
• nebulex ⭐₆₅₂ 📅₄ — 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 📅₉₆₀ — Cog is an open chatops platform that gives you a secure, collaborative command line right in your chat window.
• hedwig ⭐₆₀₆ 📅₁₁₂₅ — XMPP Client/Bot Framework for Elixir.(Docs).

Cloud Infrastructure and Management

Applications, tools and libraries for your own cloud service.

• erlcloud ⭐₆₂₆ 📅₈ — Cloud Computing library for Erlang (Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, SimpleDB, Mechanical Turk, ELB). (Docs).
• ex_aws ⭐₉₈₉ 📅₁₈ — AWS client, supporting Dynamo, Kinesis, Lambda, SQS, and S3.
• 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).
• excoveralls ⭐₅₉₈ 📅₁₁ — Coverage report tool for Elixir with coveralls.io integration.

Cryptography

Encrypting and decrypting data

• comeonin ⭐₁₁₆₀ 📅₄₄ — 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 ⭐₅₃₆ 📅₁ — A simple and fast CSV parsing and dumping library for Elixir.

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.
• gatling ⭐₅₀₁ 📅₁₄₆₁ — Collection of mix tasks to automatically create a exrm release from git and launch/upgrade it on your server.
• heroku-buildpack-elixir ⭐₇₅₈ 📅₂₅ — Heroku buildpack to deploy Elixir apps to Heroku.

Documentation

Libraries and tools for creating documentation.

• ex_doc ⭐₁₀₀₈ 📅₁ — ExDoc is a tool to generate documentation for your Elixir projects.
• phoenix_swagger ⭐₅₂₅ 📅₃₃ — Provides swagger integration to the Phoenix framework.

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.
• gen_smtp ⭐₅₇₉ 📅₅ — A generic Erlang SMTP server and client that can be extended via callback modules.
• swoosh ⭐₉₂₀ 📅₁ — 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 ⭐₅₁₂ 📅₄₀₉ — 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 ⭐₅₅₄ 📅₃₆ — 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 ⭐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.
• hexpm ⭐₇₉₁ 📅₈ — Source code for the hex package manager site built with Phoenix 1.3.
• magnetissimo ⭐₂₄₉₃ 📅₂₀₇ — Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.
• real world example app ⭐₇₅₈ 📅₄₄₈ — 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 ⭐₅₄₉ 📅₆ — 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 📅₁₃₈₈ — User authentication for Phoenix Framework.
• 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.
• torch ⭐₆₁₇ 📅₄₂ — 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 ⭐₉₂₄ 📅₈₀ — A framework for interactive dashboards.
• 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.

• Crawler ⭐₇₇₉ 📅₂₈₆ — A high performance web crawler in Elixir.
• elli ⭐₆₇₃ 📅₁₀₉₄ — Elli is a webserver you can run inside your Erlang application to expose an HTTP API.
• exvcr ⭐₅₅₀ 📅₈₉ — HTTP request/response recording library for Elixir, inspired by VCR.
• finch ⭐₅₉₇ 📅₄ — An HTTP client with a focus on performance, built on top of Mint and NimblePool.
• gun ⭐₇₀₄ 📅₁₃ — HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and Websocket client for Erlang/OTP.
• hackney ⭐₁₁₂₂ 📅₆₈ — Simple HTTP client written in Erlang.
• httpoison ⭐₁₈₉₃ 📅₄₄ — Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney.
• httpotion ⭐₇₂₃ 📅₃₆₆ — Fancy HTTP client for Elixir, based on ibrowse.
• mint ⭐₉₅₈ 📅₄ — Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2.
• mochiweb ⭐₁₇₆₉ 📅₃₇₇ — MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.
• tesla ⭐₁₃₈₇ 📅₂₆ — HTTP client library, with support for middleware and multiple adapters.

Instrumenting / Monitoring

Libraries for collecting and exporting metrics.

• elixometer ⭐₇₉₇ 📅₅ — A light Elixir wrapper around exometer.
• exometer ⭐₅₀₈ 📅₁₈₄₃ — Basic measurement objects and probe behavior in Erlang.
• telemetry ⭐₆₃₉ 📅₈ — Dynamic dispatching library for metrics and instrumentations.
• wobserver ⭐₈₉₈ 📅₁₃₀₉ — Web based metrics, monitoring, and observer.

JSON

Libraries and implementations working with JSON.

• ja_serializer ⭐₆₁₉ 📅₁₂₉ — JSONAPI.org Serialization in Elixir.
• jason ⭐₁₁₆₇ 📅₆₃ — A blazing fast JSON parser and generator in pure Elixir.
• joken ⭐₅₇₈ 📅₂₃ — Encodes and decodes JSON Web Tokens.
• jsx ⭐₆₃₉ 📅₁₆₃ — An Erlang application for consuming, producing, and manipulating json.
• 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.

Markdown

Libraries and tools working with Markdown and such.

• earmark ⭐₆₆₂ 📅₃ — Markdown parser for Elixir.

Miscellaneous

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

• AtomVM ⭐₈₂₅ 📅₁ — AtomVM allows to run Elixir/Erlang code on embedded devices such as ESP32 and STM32 microcontrollers.
• porcelain ⭐₈₁₂ 📅₁₂₇ — 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 ⭐₂₆₆₂ 📅₁₅ — Library for writing NIFs for Erlang or Elixir safely in Rust. No segfaults.

Networking

Libraries and tools for using network related stuff.

• socket ⭐₆₄₂ 📅₄₃₆ — Socket wrapping for Elixir.

ORM and Datamapping

Libraries that implement object-relational mapping or datamapping techniques.

• amnesia ⭐₆₂₉ 📅₄₃₆ — Mnesia wrapper for Elixir.
• ecto ⭐₄₉₈₂ 📅₁ — A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir.
• ecto_enum ⭐₅₃₅ 📅₁₂₈ — Ecto extension to support enums in models.
• eredis ⭐₅₉₅ 📅₇₅₉ — Erlang Redis client.
• eventstore ⭐₇₂₇ 📅₂₈ — A CQRS EventStore using Postgres for persistence, written in Elixir.
• memento ⭐₅₉₃ 📅₁₉₂ — Simple Mnesia Interface in Elixir.
• moebius ⭐₅₃₁ 📅₅₉₆ — A functional query tool for Elixir and PostgreSQL.
• postgrex ⭐₈₀₄ 📅₁ — PostgreSQL driver for Elixir.
• redix ⭐₈₁₂ 📅₁₉ — Superfast, pipelined, resilient Redis driver for Elixir.

Protocols

Special protocol and format libraries.

• grpc-elixir ⭐₈₄₉ 📅₉₈ — The Elixir implementation of gRPC.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• amqp ⭐₅₃₂ 📅₀ — Simple Elixir wrapper for the Erlang RabbitMQ client, based on Langohr.
• 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.
• honeydew ⭐₆₆₉ 📅₁₈₆ — Honeydew is a worker pool library for Elixir.
• oban ⭐₁₅₅₀ 📅₁ — Robust asynchronous job processor powered by Elixir and modern PostgreSQL.
• que ⭐₆₁₁ 📅₅₅₃ — Simple Background Job Processing with Mnesia.
• verk ⭐₆₆₂ 📅₂₄₈ — 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 ⭐₂₇₄₅ 📅₃₇₃ — A pure Elixir implementation of release packaging functionality for the Erlang VM.
• exrm ⭐₉₃₅ 📅₁₃₄₃ — Automatically generate a release for your Elixir project.

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.

• bypass ⭐₇₁₉ 📅₆₅ — Bypass provides a quick way to create a mock HTTP server with a custom plug.
• espec ⭐₇₂₄ 📅₁₀₁ — BDD test framework for Elixir inspired by RSpec.
• ex_machina ⭐₁₅₆₇ 📅₁₃ — Flexible test factories for Elixir. Works out of the box with Ecto and Ecto associations.
• faker ⭐₆₆₅ 📅₃ — Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
• hound ⭐₁₂₇₄ 📅₁₄₁ — Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation.
• meck ⭐₇₁₆ 📅₆ — A mocking library for Erlang.
• mix_test_watch ⭐₇₁₃ 📅₅ — Automatically run your Elixir project’s tests each time you save a file.
• mock ⭐₅₁₁ 📅₁₀₆ — Mocking library for the Elixir language.
• mox ⭐₈₄₇ 📅₁ — Mocks and explicit contracts for Elixir.
• proper ⭐₇₉₄ 📅₁ — PropEr (PROPerty-based testing tool for ERlang) is a QuickCheck-inspired open-source property-based testing tool for Erlang.
• wallaby ⭐₁₁₂₈ 📅₃ — 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 ⭐₅₁₆ 📅₁ — 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 ⭐₅₄₆ 📅₁ — This repository contains all the client libraries to interact with Google APIs.
• slack ⭐₅₈₁ 📅₉₈ — Slack real time messaging client in Elixir.
• stripity_stripe ⭐₅₉₃ 📅₈ — An Elixir Library for Stripe.

WebAssembly

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

• lumen ⭐₂₃₇₈ 📅₄₇ — An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly.