Awesome Elixir

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Actors

Libraries and tools for working with actors and such.

• exactor ⭐₆₅₈ 📅₁₈₆ — Helpers for easier implementation of actors in Elixir.
• poolboy ⭐₁₃₁₅ 📅₆₇₃ — A hunky Erlang worker pool factory.

Algorithms and Data structures

Libraries and implementations of algorithms and data structures.

• witchcraft ⭐₈₀₅ 📅₃₃₅ — Common algebraic structures and functions for Elixir.

Applications

Standalone applications.

• n2o ⭐₁₂₄₁ 📅₁₂ — WebSocket Application Server.
• Phoenix Trello ⭐₂₄₅₁ 📅₁₄₁₅ — Trello tribute done in Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.
• poxa ⭐₈₄₂ 📅₁₇ — Open Pusher implementation, compatible with Pusher libraries.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentication schemes.

• coherence ⭐₁₁₇₅ 📅₁₇₃ — Coherence is a full featured, configurable authentication system for Phoenix. (Docs).
• guardian ⭐₂₈₇₈ 📅₁₈ — An authentication framework for use with Elixir applications. (Docs).
• oauth2 ⭐₅₉₂ 📅₃₄₂ — An OAuth 2.0 client library for Elixir.
• pow ⭐₁₀₀₃ 📅₄ — Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system (Website - Doc).
• ueberauth ⭐₁₁₇₀ 📅₈₃ — 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 ⭐₈₈₅ 📅₁₉ — Easy and extensible benchmarking in Elixir!

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools.

• relx ⭐₆₀₈ 📅₄₉ — A release assembler for Erlang.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• cachex ⭐₈₇₀ 📅₁₆₃ — A powerful caching library for Elixir with a wide featureset.
• con_cache ⭐₇₂₀ 📅₃₅₅ — ConCache is an ETS based key/value storage.
• nebulex ⭐₅₄₆ 📅₃₅ — A fast, flexible and extensible distributed and local caching library for Elixir.

Chatting

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

• cog ⭐₉₀₁ 📅₇₅₉ — Cog is an open chatops platform that gives you a secure, collaborative command line right in your chat window.
• hedwig ⭐₅₉₁ 📅₉₂₅ — XMPP Client/Bot Framework for Elixir.(Docs).

Cloud Infrastructure and Management

Applications, tools and libraries for your own cloud service.

• erlcloud ⭐₆₁₃ 📅₁₂ — Cloud Computing library for Erlang (Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, SimpleDB, Mechanical Turk, ELB). (Docs).
• ex_aws ⭐₉₂₃ 📅₈₅ — AWS client, supporting Dynamo, Kinesis, Lambda, SQS, and S3.
• libcluster ⭐₁₁₄₂ 📅₈₂ — Automatic cluster formation/healing for Elixir applications.(Docs).

Code Analysis

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

• credo ⭐₃₄₈₆ 📅₂ — A static code analysis tool with a focus on code consistency and teaching Elixir. (Docs).
• dialyxir ⭐₁₁₈₂ 📅₂₄ — Mix tasks to simplify use of Dialyzer in Elixir projects.(Docs).
• excoveralls ⭐₅₅₄ 📅₁₅ — Coverage report tool for Elixir with coveralls.io integration.

Cryptography

Encrypting and decrypting data

• comeonin ⭐₁₁₁₄ 📅₁₆₁ — 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 ⭐₁₅₆₈ 📅₄₀ — Cron-like job scheduler for Elixir applications.
• timex ⭐₁₂₉₈ 📅₈₂ — Easy to use Date and Time modules for Elixir.

Debugging

Libraries and tools for debugging code and applications.

• observer_cli ⭐₉₈₂ 📅₇₅ — Visualize Elixir & Erlang nodes on the command line, it aims to helpe developers debug production systems.
• visualixir ⭐₁₁₀₄ 📅₃₃₃ — A process visualizer for remote BEAM nodes.

Deployment

Installing and running your code automatically on other machines.

• edeliver ⭐₁₈₄₈ 📅₁₅₉ — Deployment for Elixir and Erlang.
• heroku-buildpack-elixir ⭐₇₄₁ 📅₂₂ — Heroku buildpack to deploy Elixir apps to Heroku.

Documentation

Libraries and tools for creating documentation.

• ex_doc ⭐₉₁₄ 📅₁ — ExDoc is a tool to generate documentation for your Elixir projects.

Domain-specific language

Specialized computer languages for a particular application domain.

• Absinthe Graphql ⭐₃₂₆₉ 📅₂₅ — Fully featured GraphQL library.

Email

Working with Email and stuff.

• bamboo ⭐₁₄₂₃ 📅₆₈ — 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 ⭐₅₅₆ 📅₇₈ — A generic Erlang SMTP server and client that can be extended via callback modules.
• swoosh ⭐₈₀₃ 📅₅ — 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.

Eventhandling

Sending/Emitting and receiving/handling Events in Elixir.

• event_bus ⭐₅₀₃ 📅₁₆ — 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 ⭐₂₀₂₁ 📅₃ — CMS that runs changelog.com built with Phoenix 1.4.
• elixir_koans ⭐₁₅₂₈ 📅₆₀ — Elixir koans is a fun, easy way to get started with the elixir programming language.
• hexpm ⭐₆₉₇ 📅₈ — Source code for the hex package manager site built with Phoenix 1.3.
• magnetissimo ⭐₂₄₇₉ 📅₇ — Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.
• real world example app ⭐₆₇₇ 📅₂₄₈ — Elixir / Phoenix implementation of RealWorld.io backend specs - a Medium clone.

Framework Components

Standalone component from web development frameworks.

• addict ⭐₆₅₈ 📅₁₁₈₈ — User authentication for Phoenix Framework.
• commanded ⭐₁₁₅₇ 📅₃ — Command handling middleware for Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) applications.
• ex_admin ⭐₁₁₆₄ 📅₈₄₂ — ExAdmin is an auto administration package for Elixir and the Phoenix Framework.
• plug ⭐₂₂₁₅ 📅₁ — A specification and conveniences for composable modules in between web applications.
• surface ⭐₆₅₀ 📅₁₈ — A server-side rendering component library for Phoenix.
• torch ⭐₅₀₈ 📅₅₉ — 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 ⭐₉₀₀ 📅₃₉₃ — A framework for interactive dashboards.
• phoenix ⭐₁₅₅₃₂ 📅₂ — Elixir Web Framework targeting full-featured, fault tolerant applications with realtime functionality.

GUI

Libraries for writing Graphical User Interfaces.

• scenic ⭐₁₄₉₁ 📅₁₁₁ — Portable 2D UI framework.

Hardware

Hardware related things like I/O interfaces and such.

• nerves ⭐₁₄₇₃ 📅₀ — 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 ⭐₁₃₁₂ 📅₄ — A simple HTML parser that enables searching using CSS like selectors.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP and scraping websites.

• Crawler ⭐₇₃₅ 📅₈₆ — A high performance web crawler in Elixir.
• elli ⭐₆₇₈ 📅₈₉₃ — Elli is a webserver you can run inside your Erlang application to expose an HTTP API.
• exvcr ⭐₅₀₇ 📅₁₅ — HTTP request/response recording library for Elixir, inspired by VCR.
• gun ⭐₆₅₃ 📅₁₁₁ — HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and Websocket client for Erlang/OTP.
• hackney ⭐₁₀₆₉ 📅₅₀ — Simple HTTP client written in Erlang.
• httpoison ⭐₁₈₁₂ 📅₂₇ — Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney.
• httpotion ⭐₇₂₁ 📅₁₆₆ — Fancy HTTP client for Elixir, based on ibrowse.
• mint ⭐₈₆₆ 📅₈ — Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2.
• mochiweb ⭐₁₇₅₃ 📅₁₇₆ — MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.
• tesla ⭐₁₂₁₈ 📅₁₆ — HTTP client library, with support for middleware and multiple adapters.

Instrumenting / Monitoring

Libraries for collecting and exporting metrics.

• elixometer ⭐₇₇₆ 📅₁₂ — A light Elixir wrapper around exometer.
• telemetry ⭐₅₈₆ 📅₅₀ — Dynamic dispatching library for metrics and instrumentations.
• wobserver ⭐₈₈₀ 📅₁₁₀₉ — Web based metrics, monitoring, and observer.

JSON

Libraries and implementations working with JSON.

• ja_serializer ⭐₆₀₉ 📅₅₁ — JSONAPI.org Serialization in Elixir.
• jason ⭐₁₀₅₈ 📅₉₆ — A blazing fast JSON parser and generator in pure Elixir.
• joken ⭐₅₄₄ 📅₇₆ — Encodes and decodes JSON Web Tokens.
• jsx ⭐₆₃₆ 📅₃₆ — An Erlang application for consuming, producing, and manipulating json.
• poison ⭐₁₇₈₃ 📅₇₄₄ — 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 ⭐₁₀₄₅ 📅₁₄₄ — Compiler allowing to translate Elm programming language code to Elixir.

Markdown

Libraries and tools working with Markdown and such.

• earmark ⭐₆₂₃ 📅₁ — Markdown parser for Elixir.

Miscellaneous

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

• AtomVM ⭐₆₀₁ 📅₃₃ — AtomVM allows to run Elixir/Erlang code on embedded devices such as ESP32 and STM32 microcontrollers.
• porcelain ⭐₇₈₂ 📅₁₀₆₆ — 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 ⭐₂₃₂₇ 📅₉ — Library for writing NIFs for Erlang or Elixir safely in Rust. No segfaults.

Networking

Libraries and tools for using network related stuff.

• socket ⭐₆₂₁ 📅₂₃₆ — Socket wrapping for Elixir.

ORM and Datamapping

Libraries that implement object-relational mapping or datamapping techniques.

• amnesia ⭐₆₀₈ 📅₂₃₆ — Mnesia wrapper for Elixir.
• ecto ⭐₄₇₃₄ 📅₀ — A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir.
• ecto_enum ⭐₅₀₉ 📅₁₂₁ — Ecto extension to support enums in models.
• eredis ⭐₅₉₂ 📅₅₅₈ — Erlang Redis client.
• eventstore ⭐₆₅₇ 📅₁₅ — A CQRS EventStore using Postgres for persistence, written in Elixir.
• memento ⭐₅₅₃ 📅₁₉₆ — Simple Mnesia Interface in Elixir.
• moebius ⭐₅₂₃ 📅₃₉₆ — A functional query tool for Elixir and PostgreSQL.
• postgrex ⭐₇₅₇ 📅₄₁ — PostgreSQL driver for Elixir.
• redix ⭐₇₄₁ 📅₉ — Superfast, pipelined, resilient Redis driver for Elixir.

Protocols

Special protocol and format libraries.

• grpc-elixir ⭐₇₄₂ 📅₅₈ — The Elixir implementation of gRPC.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• amqp ⭐₅₀₂ 📅₁₃ — Simple Elixir wrapper for the Erlang RabbitMQ client, based on Langohr.
• broadway ⭐₁₀₁₉ 📅₁₂ — Concurrent and multi-stage data ingestion and data processing with Elixir.
• exq ⭐₁₁₃₅ 📅₆ — Job processing library for Elixir - compatible with Resque/Sidekiq.
• honeydew ⭐₆₁₅ 📅₁₈₁ — Honeydew is a worker pool library for Elixir.
• oban ⭐₁₁₈₄ 📅₂ — Robust asynchronous job processor powered by Elixir and modern PostgreSQL.
• que ⭐₅₉₆ 📅₃₅₃ — Simple Background Job Processing with Mnesia.
• verk ⭐₆₅₇ 📅₄₈ — 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 ⭐₂₆₆₇ 📅₁₇₃ — A pure Elixir implementation of release packaging functionality for the Erlang VM.
• exrm ⭐₉₄₀ 📅₁₁₄₃ — Automatically generate a release for your Elixir project.

REST and API

Libraries and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.

• maru ⭐₁₂₆₂ 📅₃₈₃ — Elixir copy of grape for creating REST-like APIs.

Security

Libraries and tools regarding security.

• sobelow ⭐₉₇₈ 📅₁₉ — Security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• bypass ⭐₆₅₅ 📅₆₆ — Bypass provides a quick way to create a mock HTTP server with a custom plug.
• espec ⭐₇₀₇ 📅₁₃₄ — BDD test framework for Elixir inspired by RSpec.
• ex_machina ⭐₁₄₃₈ 📅₂₂ — Flexible test factories for Elixir. Works out of the box with Ecto and Ecto associations.
• faker ⭐₆₀₅ 📅₉ — Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
• hound ⭐₁₂₂₁ 📅₅₀₇ — Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation.
• meck ⭐₆₉₀ 📅₄₄ — A mocking library for Erlang.
• mix_test_watch ⭐₆₈₈ 📅₂₆₅ — Automatically run your Elixir project’s tests each time you save a file.
• proper ⭐₇₅₇ 📅₈₅ — PropEr (PROPerty-based testing tool for ERlang) is a QuickCheck-inspired open-source property-based testing tool for Erlang.
• wallaby ⭐₁₀₂₅ 📅₁ — Wallaby helps test your web applications by simulating user interactions concurrently and manages browsers.

Third Party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

• slack ⭐₅₅₉ 📅₂₄ — Slack real time messaging client in Elixir.
• stripity_stripe ⭐₅₃₂ 📅₁₉ — An Elixir Library for Stripe.