Awesome Elixir

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Actors

Libraries and tools for working with actors and such.

• exactor ⭐₆₆₃ 📅₇₁₄ — Helpers for easier implementation of actors in Elixir.
• poolboy ⭐₁₄₂₉ 📅₁₂₀₁ — A hunky Erlang worker pool factory.

Algorithms and Data structures

Libraries and implementations of algorithms and data structures.

• flow ⭐₁₂₂₅ 📅₁₁ — Computational parallel flows on top of GenStage.
• witchcraft ⭐₉₆₃ 📅₆₂ — Common algebraic structures and functions for Elixir.

Applications

Standalone applications.

• Phoenix Battleship ⭐₅₀₈ 📅₁₉₅₀ — The Good Old game built with Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.
• Phoenix Trello ⭐₂₄₉₃ 📅₁₉₄₃ — Trello tribute done in Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.
• poxa ⭐₉₄₁ 📅₃₃₁ — Open Pusher implementation, compatible with Pusher libraries.
• RemoteRetro ⭐₅₀₈ 📅₆₂ — A real-time application for conducting Agile retrospectives at remoteretro.org written in Elixir/Phoenix/React.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentication schemes.

• coherence ⭐₁₂₂₄ 📅₂₂₂ — Coherence is a full featured, configurable authentication system for Phoenix. (Docs).
• guardian ⭐₃₁₆₂ 📅₂₇ — An authentication framework for use with Elixir applications. (Docs).
• oauth2 ⭐₆₄₄ 📅₁₅ — An OAuth 2.0 client library for Elixir.
• phx_gen_auth ⭐₈₀₂ 📅₁₅₁ — An authentication system generator for Phoenix 1.5 applications.
• pow ⭐₁₃₇₄ 📅₇₄ — Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system (Website - Doc).
• ueberauth ⭐₁₃₅₈ 📅₉₄ — An Elixir Authentication System for Plug-based Web Applications.

Authorization

Libraries for implementing Authorization handling.

• bodyguard ⭐₅₉₄ 📅₄₇ — 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 ⭐₁₀₅₆ 📅₃₄₃ — Easy and extensible benchmarking in Elixir!

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools.

• relx ⭐₆₅₀ 📅₁ — A release assembler for Erlang.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• cachex ⭐₁₁₂₉ 📅₁₅₄ — A powerful caching library for Elixir with a wide featureset.
• con_cache ⭐₈₁₉ 📅₃₀₆ — ConCache is an ETS based key/value storage.
• nebulex ⭐₈₂₇ 📅₆₇ — A fast, flexible and extensible distributed and local caching library for Elixir.

Chatting

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

• cog ⭐₉₁₈ 📅₁₃₃ — Cog is an open chatops platform that gives you a secure, collaborative command line right in your chat window.
• hedwig ⭐₆₂₇ 📅₁₄₅₄ — XMPP Client/Bot Framework for Elixir.(Docs).

Cloud Infrastructure and Management

Applications, tools and libraries for your own cloud service.

• erlcloud ⭐₆₄₁ 📅₂ — Cloud Computing library for Erlang (Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, SimpleDB, Mechanical Turk, ELB). (Docs).
• ex_aws ⭐₁₁₁₄ 📅₁ — AWS client, supporting Dynamo, Kinesis, Lambda, SQS, and S3.
• libcluster ⭐₁₄₉₈ 📅₁ — Automatic cluster formation/healing for Elixir applications.(Docs).

Code Analysis

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

• credo ⭐₄₁₇₃ 📅₂ — A static code analysis tool with a focus on code consistency and teaching Elixir. (Docs).
• dialyxir ⭐₁₃₉₆ 📅₂ — Mix tasks to simplify use of Dialyzer in Elixir projects.(Docs).
• excoveralls ⭐₆₇₇ 📅₂₉ — Coverage report tool for Elixir with coveralls.io integration.

Cryptography

Encrypting and decrypting data

• comeonin ⭐₁₂₁₇ 📅₃₇₂ — 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 ⭐₆₂₃ 📅₃₃ — A simple and fast CSV parsing and dumping library for Elixir.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• quantum ⭐₁₉₁₅ 📅₈ — Cron-like job scheduler for Elixir applications.
• timex ⭐₁₅₄₅ 📅₂₇ — Easy to use Date and Time modules for Elixir.

Debugging

Libraries and tools for debugging code and applications.

• observer_cli ⭐₁₁₃₇ 📅₁₃₂ — Visualize Elixir & Erlang nodes on the command line, it aims to helpe developers debug production systems.
• visualixir ⭐₁₂₃₀ 📅₈₆₂ — A process visualizer for remote BEAM nodes.

Deployment

Installing and running your code automatically on other machines.

• edeliver ⭐₁₉₁₇ 📅₆₈₈ — Deployment for Elixir and Erlang.
• heroku-buildpack-elixir ⭐₇₈₅ 📅₁₄₇ — Heroku buildpack to deploy Elixir apps to Heroku.

Documentation

Libraries and tools for creating documentation.

• ex_doc ⭐₁₁₄₅ 📅₁ — ExDoc is a tool to generate documentation for your Elixir projects.
• phoenix_swagger ⭐₅₇₀ 📅₁₁ — Provides swagger integration to the Phoenix framework.

Domain-specific language

Specialized computer languages for a particular application domain.

• Absinthe Graphql ⭐₃₈₂₈ 📅₁ — Fully featured GraphQL library.

Email

Working with Email and stuff.

• bamboo ⭐₁₇₅₅ 📅₁₄₅ — 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 ⭐₆₁₀ 📅₉₂ — A generic Erlang SMTP server and client that can be extended via callback modules.
• swoosh ⭐₁₁₂₈ 📅₃ — 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 ⭐₅₄₄ 📅₇₃₇ — Elegant error handling with result monads, featuring a simple & powerful with construct and a happy path pipe operator.
• sentry-elixir ⭐₅₁₃ 📅₉₀ — The Official Elixir client for Sentry.

Eventhandling

Sending/Emitting and receiving/handling Events in Elixir.

• event_bus ⭐₆₁₈ 📅₁₇ — 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 ⭐₂₃₆₂ 📅₂ — CMS that runs changelog.com built with Phoenix 1.4.
• elixir_koans ⭐₁₇₉₄ 📅₁₈₂ — Elixir koans is a fun, easy way to get started with the elixir programming language.
• hexpm ⭐₈₆₈ 📅₁ — Source code for the hex package manager site built with Phoenix 1.3.
• magnetissimo ⭐₂₅₅₉ 📅₅₃₅ — Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.
• phoenix-chat-example ⭐₅₁₇ 📅₅₆ — A step-by-step example/tutorial for building a Chat app in Phoenix for complete beginners. Covers testing, docs and deployement. Phoenix 1.5.3.
• real world example app ⭐₈₃₉ 📅₇₇₆ — 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 ⭐₆₇₃ 📅₃₄ — 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.

Files and Directories

Libraries and implementations for working with files and directories.

• waffle ⭐₅₂₅ 📅₈ — Flexible file upload and attachment library for Elixir.

Framework Components

Standalone component from web development frameworks.

• addict ⭐₆₅₀ 📅₁₇₁₆ — User authentication for Phoenix Framework.
• commanded ⭐₁₄₄₆ 📅₁₂ — Command handling middleware for Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) applications.
• ex_admin ⭐₁₁₉₀ 📅₁₃₇₁ — ExAdmin is an auto administration package for Elixir and the Phoenix Framework.
• plug ⭐₂₄₆₆ 📅₃₃ — A specification and conveniences for composable modules in between web applications.
• scrivener ⭐₅₃₀ 📅₂₀₃ — Paginate your Ecto queries.
• surface ⭐₁₅₄₇ 📅₆ — A server-side rendering component library for Phoenix.
• torch ⭐₇₆₂ 📅₁₆ — 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 ⭐₉₄₂ 📅₄₀₈ — A framework for interactive dashboards.
• n2o ⭐₁₂₈₁ 📅₂₀ — Distributed Application Server.
• phoenix ⭐₁₇₅₅₃ 📅₄ — Elixir Web Framework targeting full-featured, fault tolerant applications with realtime functionality.
• RIG ⭐₅₀₀ 📅₂₃₉ — Create low-latency, interactive user experiences for stateless microservices.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• geo ⭐₅₂₈ 📅₃₄ — A collection of GIS functions for Elixir.

GUI

Libraries for writing Graphical User Interfaces.

• scenic ⭐₁₇₂₅ 📅₄₅ — Portable 2D UI framework.

Hardware

Hardware related things like I/O interfaces and such.

• nerves ⭐₁₇₉₀ 📅₂ — 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 ⭐₁₆₅₂ 📅₁ — A simple HTML parser that enables searching using CSS like selectors.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP and scraping websites.

• Crawler ⭐₈₃₇ 📅₉₇ — A high performance web crawler in Elixir.
• Crawly ⭐₅₄₁ 📅₇₇ — high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Elixir.
• elli ⭐₆₆₈ 📅₁₄₂₂ — Elli is a webserver you can run inside your Erlang application to expose an HTTP API.
• exvcr ⭐₆₀₁ 📅₁₆₈ — HTTP request/response recording library for Elixir, inspired by VCR.
• finch ⭐₈₆₄ 📅₇ — An HTTP client with a focus on performance, built on top of Mint and NimblePool.
• gun ⭐₇₇₁ 📅₂₄₀ — HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and Websocket client for Erlang/OTP.
• hackney ⭐₁₂₀₇ 📅₁₁₃ — Simple HTTP client written in Erlang.
• httpoison ⭐₂₀₁₂ 📅₇₄ — Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney.
• httpotion ⭐₇₂₂ 📅₆₉₄ — Fancy HTTP client for Elixir, based on ibrowse.
• mint ⭐₁₁₀₀ 📅₂₇ — Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2.
• mochiweb ⭐₁₈₀₂ 📅₁₄₈ — MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.
• tesla ⭐₁₅₉₅ 📅₃₃ — HTTP client library, with support for middleware and multiple adapters.

Instrumenting / Monitoring

Libraries for collecting and exporting metrics.

• elixometer ⭐₈₀₅ 📅₇ — A light Elixir wrapper around exometer.
• exometer ⭐₅₁₇ 📅₂₁₇₁ — Basic measurement objects and probe behavior in Erlang.
• telemetry ⭐₇₃₁ 📅₈ — Dynamic dispatching library for metrics and instrumentations.
• wobserver ⭐₉₁₇ 📅₁₆₃₇ — Web based metrics, monitoring, and observer.

JSON

Libraries and implementations working with JSON.

• ja_serializer ⭐₆₂₆ 📅₄₅₇ — JSONAPI.org Serialization in Elixir.
• jason ⭐₁₃₁₅ 📅₂₉ — A blazing fast JSON parser and generator in pure Elixir.
• joken ⭐₆₄₅ 📅₂₀ — Encodes and decodes JSON Web Tokens.
• jsx ⭐₆₅₆ 📅₂₇ — An Erlang application for consuming, producing, and manipulating json.
• poison ⭐₁₉₀₀ 📅₅₃ — 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 ⭐₁₁₁₇ 📅₆₇₃ — Compiler allowing to translate Elm programming language code to Elixir.

Markdown

Libraries and tools working with Markdown and such.

• earmark ⭐₇₁₉ 📅₁ — Markdown parser for Elixir.

Miscellaneous

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

• AtomVM ⭐₉₄₁ 📅₀ — AtomVM allows to run Elixir/Erlang code on embedded devices such as ESP32 and STM32 microcontrollers.
• porcelain ⭐₈₆₅ 📅₄₅₅ — 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 ⭐₃₀₈₆ 📅₁₆ — Library for writing NIFs for Erlang or Elixir safely in Rust. No segfaults.

Networking

Libraries and tools for using network related stuff.

• socket ⭐₆₅₈ 📅₇₆₄ — Socket wrapping for Elixir.

ORM and Datamapping

Libraries that implement object-relational mapping or datamapping techniques.

• amnesia ⭐₆₅₅ 📅₇₆₄ — Mnesia wrapper for Elixir.
• ecto ⭐₅₃₃₃ 📅₂ — A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir.
• ecto_enum ⭐₅₄₅ 📅₄₅₆ — Ecto extension to support enums in models.
• eredis ⭐₆₀₄ 📅₁₀₈₇ — Erlang Redis client.
• eventstore ⭐₈₂₃ 📅₂₆ — A CQRS EventStore using Postgres for persistence, written in Elixir.
• memento ⭐₆₄₇ 📅₂₇₇ — Simple Mnesia Interface in Elixir.
• moebius ⭐₅₃₂ 📅₄₈ — A functional query tool for Elixir and PostgreSQL.
• mongodb ⭐₅₀₇ 📅₆₂ — MongoDB driver for Elixir.
• postgrex ⭐₈₉₀ 📅₂₀ — PostgreSQL driver for Elixir.
• redix ⭐₉₀₃ 📅₃₁ — Superfast, pipelined, resilient Redis driver for Elixir.

Protocols

Special protocol and format libraries.

• grpc-elixir ⭐₉₇₂ 📅₄₂₆ — The Elixir implementation of gRPC.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• amqp ⭐₅₉₄ 📅₂₀ — Simple Elixir wrapper for the Erlang RabbitMQ client, based on Langohr.
• broadway ⭐₁₇₁₉ 📅₇ — Concurrent and multi-stage data ingestion and data processing with Elixir.
• exq ⭐₁₃₁₂ 📅₃₀ — Job processing library for Elixir - compatible with Resque/Sidekiq.
• honeydew ⭐₆₈₈ 📅₂₄₄ — Honeydew is a worker pool library for Elixir.
• oban ⭐₂₀₆₇ 📅₁ — Robust asynchronous job processor powered by Elixir and modern PostgreSQL.
• que ⭐₆₁₉ 📅₈₈₁ — Simple Background Job Processing with Mnesia.
• verk ⭐₆₈₈ 📅₁₂₇ — 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 ⭐₂₈₆₉ 📅₇₀₂ — A pure Elixir implementation of release packaging functionality for the Erlang VM.
• exrm ⭐₉₃₁ 📅₁₆₇₂ — Automatically generate a release for your Elixir project.

REST and API

Libraries and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.

• maru ⭐₁₂₉₇ 📅₉₁₁ — Elixir copy of grape for creating REST-like APIs.

Security

Libraries and tools regarding security.

• Ockam ⭐₁₇₈₇ 📅₆ — 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 ⭐₁₂₂₄ 📅₈₅ — Security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• bypass ⭐₈₀₅ 📅₃₉₃ — Bypass provides a quick way to create a mock HTTP server with a custom plug.
• espec ⭐₇₅₇ 📅₄₂₉ — BDD test framework for Elixir inspired by RSpec.
• ex_machina ⭐₁₇₀₀ 📅₃₂₀ — Flexible test factories for Elixir. Works out of the box with Ecto and Ecto associations.
• faker ⭐₇₈₉ 📅₁ — Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
• hound ⭐₁₃₀₆ 📅₄₆₉ — Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation.
• meck ⭐₇₅₈ 📅₁₀₉ — A mocking library for Erlang.
• mix_test_watch ⭐₇₉₁ 📅₆₃ — Automatically run your Elixir project’s tests each time you save a file.
• mock ⭐₅₅₄ 📅₇₅ — Mocking library for the Elixir language.
• mox ⭐₁₀₀₀ 📅₁₃ — Mocks and explicit contracts for Elixir.
• proper ⭐₈₂₁ 📅₁₈₁ — PropEr (PROPerty-based testing tool for ERlang) is a QuickCheck-inspired open-source property-based testing tool for Erlang.
• wallaby ⭐₁₂₇₇ 📅₉₁ — 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 ⭐₅₉₂ 📅₅₅ — 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 ⭐₆₂₀ 📅₁ — This repository contains all the client libraries to interact with Google APIs.
• pigeon ⭐₅₁₇ 📅₁₆ — HTTP2-compliant wrapper for sending iOS and Android push notifications.
• slack ⭐₆₁₂ 📅₄₂₇ — Slack real time messaging client in Elixir.
• stripity_stripe ⭐₆₈₃ 📅₂₇ — An Elixir Library for Stripe.

Validations

Libraries and implementations for validation of data.

• vex ⭐₅₃₉ 📅₁₉₆ — An extensible data validation library for Elixir.

WebAssembly

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

• lumen ⭐₂₇₆₇ 📅₂₉₈ — An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly.