Awesome Elixir

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Actors

Libraries and tools for working with actors and such.

• exactor ⭐₆₆₆ 📅₁₀₂₉ — Helpers for easier implementation of actors in Elixir.
• 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 Battleship ⭐₅₁₇ 📅₂₂₆₅ — The Good Old game built with Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.
• Phoenix Trello ⭐₂₄₉₅ 📅₂₂₅₈ — Trello tribute done in Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.
• poxa ⭐₉₈₆ 📅₁₇₉ — Open Pusher implementation, compatible with Pusher libraries.
• RemoteRetro ⭐₅₃₆ 📅₃₅ — A real-time application for conducting Agile retrospectives at remoteretro.org written in Elixir/Phoenix/React.

Artificial Intelligence

When your code becomes smarter than you.

• Axon ⭐₁₀₈₇ 📅₂ — 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).
• oauth2 ⭐₆₈₂ 📅₁₆₂ — An OAuth 2.0 client library for Elixir.
• phx_gen_auth ⭐₇₉₀ 📅₄₆₆ — An authentication system generator for Phoenix 1.5 applications.
• pow ⭐₁₄₃₆ 📅₅₁ — Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system (Website - Doc).
• ueberauth ⭐₁₄₃₆ 📅₇₇ — An Elixir Authentication System for Plug-based Web Applications.

Authorization

Libraries for implementing Authorization handling.

• bodyguard ⭐₆₅₁ 📅₃₆₁ — 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 ⭐₁₂₁₄ 📅₁₆₄ — Easy and extensible benchmarking in Elixir!

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools.

• relx ⭐₆₇₀ 📅₈₉ — A release assembler for Erlang.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• cachex ⭐₁₂₇₀ 📅₇ — A powerful caching library for Elixir with a wide featureset.
• con_cache ⭐₈₄₆ 📅₄₂ — ConCache is an ETS based key/value storage.
• nebulex ⭐₉₆₁ 📅₉ — A fast, flexible and extensible distributed and local caching library for Elixir.

Chatting

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

• cog ⭐₉₂₀ 📅₄₄₇ — Cog is an open chatops platform that gives you a secure, collaborative command line right in your chat window.
• hedwig ⭐₆₄₁ 📅₁₇₆₈ — XMPP Client/Bot Framework for Elixir.(Docs).

Cloud Infrastructure and Management

Applications, tools and libraries for your own cloud service.

• erlcloud ⭐₆₄₈ 📅₂ — Cloud Computing library for Erlang (Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, SimpleDB, Mechanical Turk, ELB). (Docs).
• 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).
• excoveralls ⭐₇₄₉ 📅₃ — Coverage report tool for Elixir with coveralls.io integration.

Command Line Applications

Anything helpful for building CLI applications.

• ratatouille ⭐₅₈₁ 📅₄₀₉ — A TUI (terminal UI) kit for Elixir.

Cryptography

Encrypting and decrypting data

• cloak ⭐₅₀₉ 📅₁₆₅ — Cloak makes it easy to use encryption with Ecto.(Docs).
• comeonin ⭐₁₂₃₇ 📅₃₁₄ — 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 ⭐₆₇₃ 📅₁₂₀ — A simple and fast CSV parsing and dumping library for Elixir.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• quantum ⭐₂₀₄₇ 📅₈ — 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.
• heroku-buildpack-elixir ⭐₇₉₇ 📅₁₀₆ — Heroku buildpack to deploy Elixir apps to Heroku.

Documentation

Libraries and tools for creating documentation.

• ex_doc ⭐₁₂₅₃ 📅₅ — ExDoc is a tool to generate documentation for your Elixir projects.
• phoenix_swagger ⭐₆₁₇ 📅₆₁ — Provides swagger integration to the Phoenix framework.

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 📅₃₀₁ — 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 ⭐₆₂₈ 📅₇₉ — A generic Erlang SMTP server and client that can be extended via callback modules.
• 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.

Errors and Exception Handling

Working with errors and exceptions.

• OK ⭐₅₈₃ 📅₁₀₅₂ — Elegant error handling with result monads, featuring a simple & powerful with construct and a happy path pipe operator.
• sentry-elixir ⭐₅₃₈ 📅₁₂₂ — The Official Elixir client for Sentry.

Eventhandling

Sending/Emitting and receiving/handling Events in Elixir.

• event_bus ⭐₆₅₆ 📅₂₇₇ — 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 ⭐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.
• hexpm ⭐₉₄₈ 📅₇ — Source code for the hex package manager site built with Phoenix 1.3.
• magnetissimo ⭐₂₆₀₃ 📅₈₅₀ — Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.
• phoenix-chat-example ⭐₆₂₂ 📅₁₂ — 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 ⭐₈₆₉ 📅₁₀₉₁ — 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 ⭐₈₀₃ 📅₂₉ — 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 ⭐₅₉₇ 📅₉ — Flexible file upload and attachment library for Elixir.

Framework Components

Standalone component from web development frameworks.

• addict ⭐₆₄₆ 📅₂₀₃₁ — User authentication for Phoenix Framework.
• 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 📅₁₂ — A specification and conveniences for composable modules in between web applications.
• scrivener ⭐₅₄₃ 📅₅₁₈ — Paginate your Ecto queries.
• surface ⭐₁₇₇₀ 📅₃₀ — A server-side rendering component library for Phoenix.
• torch ⭐₈₈₁ 📅₁ — 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 ⭐₉₄₅ 📅₇₂₃ — A framework for interactive dashboards.
• n2o ⭐₁₃₀₇ 📅₈ — Distributed Application Server.
• phoenix ⭐₁₈₈₂₇ 📅₁ — Elixir Web Framework targeting full-featured, fault tolerant applications with realtime functionality.
• RIG ⭐₅₄₈ 📅₁₀₉ — Create low-latency, interactive user experiences for stateless microservices.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• geo ⭐₅₆₂ 📅₂₂₄ — A collection of GIS functions for Elixir.

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 📅₈ — A simple HTML parser that enables searching using CSS like selectors.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP and scraping websites.

• Crawler ⭐₈₇₀ 📅₄₁₂ — A high performance web crawler in Elixir.
• Crawly ⭐₆₄₂ 📅₆₉ — high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Elixir.
• elli ⭐₆₆₆ 📅₁₇₃₇ — Elli is a webserver you can run inside your Erlang application to expose an HTTP API.
• exvcr ⭐₆₃₄ 📅₈₁ — HTTP request/response recording library for Elixir, inspired by VCR.
• finch ⭐₉₈₂ 📅₂₇ — An HTTP client with a focus on performance, built on top of Mint and NimblePool.
• gun ⭐₈₁₇ 📅₈ — HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and Websocket client for Erlang/OTP.
• hackney ⭐₁₂₅₀ 📅₃₆ — Simple HTTP client written in Erlang.
• httpoison ⭐₂₁₀₄ 📅₄₁ — Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney.
• httpotion ⭐₇₂₃ 📅₁₂₀ — Fancy HTTP client for Elixir, based on ibrowse.
• 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.

Images

Libraries for working with and manipulating images.

• mogrify ⭐₅₂₁ 📅₁₀₀ — An Elixir wrapper for ImageMagick command line.

Instrumenting / Monitoring

Libraries for collecting and exporting metrics.

• elixometer ⭐₈₁₅ 📅₂₅₁ — A light Elixir wrapper around exometer.
• exometer ⭐₅₁₉ 📅₂₄₈₆ — Basic measurement objects and probe behavior in Erlang.
• telemetry ⭐₇₈₀ 📅₃₅ — Dynamic dispatching library for metrics and instrumentations.
• wobserver ⭐₉₂₄ 📅₁₉₅₂ — Web based metrics, monitoring, and observer.

JSON

Libraries and implementations working with JSON.

• ja_serializer ⭐₆₂₉ 📅₇₀ — JSONAPI.org Serialization in Elixir.
• jason ⭐₁₃₉₆ 📅₄₄ — A blazing fast JSON parser and generator in pure Elixir.
• joken ⭐₆₉₀ 📅₁₄ — Encodes and decodes JSON Web Tokens.
• jsx ⭐₆₇₁ 📅₃₄₁ — An Erlang application for consuming, producing, and manipulating json.
• 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 📅₉₈₈ — Compiler allowing to translate Elm programming language code to Elixir.

Macros

Macros for faster and easier development. Sugar for your code.

• typed_struct ⭐₆₃₅ 📅₂₈₇ — An Elixir library for defining structs with a type without writing boilerplate code.

Markdown

Libraries and tools working with Markdown and such.

• earmark ⭐₇₆₄ 📅₃ — Markdown parser for 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.
• porcelain ⭐₈₉₀ 📅₇₆₉ — 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 ⭐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.
• socket ⭐₆₇₁ 📅₁₀₇₉ — Socket wrapping for Elixir.

ORM and Datamapping

Libraries that implement object-relational mapping or datamapping techniques.

• amnesia ⭐₆₆₆ 📅₁₀₇₉ — Mnesia wrapper for Elixir.
• ecto ⭐₅₆₃₃ 📅₄ — A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir.
• ecto_enum ⭐₅₅₂ 📅₇₇₁ — Ecto extension to support enums in models.
• eredis ⭐₆₁₆ 📅₁₄₀₂ — Erlang Redis client.
• eventstore ⭐₉₁₅ 📅₄₀ — A CQRS EventStore using Postgres for persistence, written in Elixir.
• memento ⭐₆₉₂ 📅₂₇₆ — Simple Mnesia Interface in Elixir.
• moebius ⭐₅₄₆ 📅₆₂ — A functional query tool for Elixir and PostgreSQL.
• mongodb ⭐₅₄₁ 📅₁₇₄ — MongoDB driver for Elixir.
• paper_trail ⭐₅₀₃ 📅₇₉ — Ecto plugin for tracking and recording all the changes in your database.
• postgrex ⭐₉₆₇ 📅₂₆ — PostgreSQL driver for Elixir.
• redix ⭐₉₇₉ 📅₁₇ — Superfast, pipelined, resilient Redis driver 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.

• amqp ⭐₆₂₅ 📅₃₅ — Simple Elixir wrapper for the Erlang RabbitMQ client, based on Langohr.
• 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.
• honeydew ⭐₇₀₆ 📅₅₅₈ — Honeydew is a worker pool library for Elixir.
• oban ⭐₂₃₉₄ 📅₈ — Robust asynchronous job processor powered by Elixir and modern PostgreSQL.
• que ⭐₆₃₈ 📅₂₇₆ — Simple Background Job Processing with Mnesia.
• verk ⭐₇₁₂ 📅₄₄₂ — 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 ⭐₂₉₁₁ 📅₁₀₁₆ — A pure Elixir implementation of release packaging functionality for the Erlang VM.
• exrm ⭐₉₂₅ 📅₁₉₈₆ — Automatically generate a release for your Elixir project.

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.

• bypass ⭐₈₆₅ 📅₇₀₈ — Bypass provides a quick way to create a mock HTTP server with a custom plug.
• espec ⭐₇₈₄ 📅₁₈₉ — BDD test framework for Elixir inspired by RSpec.
• ex_machina ⭐₁₇₈₅ 📅₃₄ — Flexible test factories for Elixir. Works out of the box with Ecto and Ecto associations.
• faker ⭐₉₀₂ 📅₁₆ — Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
• hound ⭐₁₃₁₅ 📅₇₈₄ — Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation.
• meck ⭐₇₇₆ 📅₈ — A mocking library for Erlang.
• mix_test_watch ⭐₈₃₄ 📅₃₀₁ — Automatically run your Elixir project’s tests each time you save a file.
• mock ⭐₅₈₄ 📅₂₈₀ — Mocking library for the Elixir language.
• mox ⭐₁₁₃₉ 📅₃₀ — Mocks and explicit contracts for Elixir.
• proper ⭐₈₄₁ 📅₆ — PropEr (PROPerty-based testing tool for ERlang) is a QuickCheck-inspired open-source property-based testing tool for Erlang.
• wallaby ⭐₁₄₁₆ 📅₂₀ — 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 ⭐₆₈₃ 📅₇ — 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 ⭐₆₈₂ 📅₁₁ — This repository contains all the client libraries to interact with Google APIs.
• pigeon ⭐₅₅₀ 📅₁₁₅ — HTTP2-compliant wrapper for sending iOS and Android push notifications.
• slack ⭐₆₃₄ 📅₁₁₃ — Slack real time messaging client in Elixir.
• stripity_stripe ⭐₇₅₀ 📅₂ — An Elixir Library for Stripe.

Validations

Libraries and implementations for validation of data.

• vex ⭐₅₅₇ 📅₅₁₀ — An extensible data validation library for Elixir.

WebAssembly

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

• lumen ⭐₃₀₈₆ 📅₇₈ — An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly.