Awesome Elixir

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Actors

Libraries and tools for working with actors and such.

• poolboy ⭐₁₄₈₉ 📅₂₆₂₁ — A hunky Erlang worker pool factory.

Algorithms and Data structures

Libraries and implementations of algorithms and data structures.

• flow ⭐₁₃₈₉ 📅₉₉₄ — Computational parallel flows on top of GenStage.
• witchcraft ⭐₁₁₄₉ 📅₁₄₀₄ — Common algebraic structures and functions for Elixir.

Applications

Standalone applications.

• Phoenix Trello ⭐₂₄₉₆ 📅₃₃₆₃ — Trello tribute done in Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.
• Plural ⭐₁₀₁₉ 📅₉₆₂ — Deploys your favorite open source applications like airflow and airbyte in your own cloud account with just two commands. Written in Elixir and Phoenix Framework for server side, and React for frontend.

Artificial Intelligence

When your code becomes smarter than you.

• Axon ⭐₁₂₅₅ 📅₉₆₆ — Nx-powered Neural Networks
• m2cgen ⭐₂₄₉₉ 📅₁₁₆₁ — A CLI tool to transpile trained classic ML models into a native Elixir code with zero dependencies.
• Nx ⭐₂₁₆₆ 📅₉₆₁ — Multi-dimensional arrays (tensors) and numerical definitions for Elixir.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentication schemes.

• coherence ⭐₁₂₃₈ 📅₁₆₄₃ — Coherence is a full featured, configurable authentication system for Phoenix. (Docs).
• guardian ⭐₃₃₁₂ 📅₁₁₁₁ — An authentication framework for use with Elixir applications. (Docs).
• pow ⭐₁₄₇₀ 📅₉₈₅ — Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system (Website - Doc).
• ueberauth ⭐₁₄₇₁ 📅₁₀₀₅ — 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 ⭐₁₂₅₉ 📅₁₀₈₀ — Easy and extensible benchmarking in Elixir!

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• cachex ⭐₁₃₃₅ 📅₉₆₇ — A powerful caching library for Elixir with a wide featureset.
• nebulex ⭐₁₀₃₄ 📅₁₀₄₅ — A fast, flexible and extensible distributed and local caching library for Elixir.

Cloud Infrastructure and Management

Applications, tools and libraries for your own cloud service.

• ex_aws ⭐₁₁₉₁ 📅₉₇₂ — AWS client, supporting Dynamo, Kinesis, Lambda, SQS, and S3.
• libcluster ⭐₁₇₂₇ 📅₁₀₄₈ — Automatic cluster formation/healing for Elixir applications.(Docs).

Code Analysis

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

• credo ⭐₄₅₉₆ 📅₉₉₁ — A static code analysis tool with a focus on code consistency and teaching Elixir. (Docs).
• dialyxir ⭐₁₅₄₂ 📅₉₆₃ — Mix tasks to simplify use of Dialyzer in Elixir projects.(Docs).

Cryptography

Encrypting and decrypting data

• comeonin ⭐₁₂₅₀ 📅₁₀₀₉ — 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 ⭐₂₁₁₂ 📅₉₇₉ — Cron-like job scheduler for Elixir applications.
• timex ⭐₁₆₇₄ 📅₉₉₁ — Easy to use Date and Time modules for Elixir.

Debugging

Libraries and tools for debugging code and applications.

• observer_cli ⭐₁₂₅₃ 📅₁₁₁₂ — Visualize Elixir & Erlang nodes on the command line, it aims to helpe developers debug production systems.
• visualixir ⭐₁₂₆₈ 📅₂₂₈₂ — A process visualizer for remote BEAM nodes.

Deployment

Installing and running your code automatically on other machines.

• edeliver ⭐₁₉₅₅ 📅₁₂₅₁ — Deployment for Elixir and Erlang.

Documentation

Libraries and tools for creating documentation.

• ex_doc ⭐₁₂₉₇ 📅₉₆₁ — ExDoc is a tool to generate documentation for your Elixir projects.

Domain-specific language

Specialized computer languages for a particular application domain.

• Absinthe Graphql ⭐₄₁₀₂ 📅₉₈₇ — Fully featured GraphQL library.

Email

Working with Email and stuff.

• bamboo ⭐₁₈₅₆ 📅₁₀₆₈ — 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.
• swoosh ⭐₁₂₇₇ 📅₉₆₂ — 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.

Examples and funny stuff

Example code and stuff too funny or curious not to mention.

• changelog.com ⭐₂₅₃₅ 📅₉₆₃ — CMS that runs changelog.com built with Phoenix 1.4.
• elixir_koans ⭐₁₉₆₀ 📅₁₀₁₃ — Elixir koans is a fun, easy way to get started with the elixir programming language.
• magnetissimo ⭐₂₇₇₇ 📅₉₆₉ — Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.

Framework Components

Standalone component from web development frameworks.

• commanded ⭐₁₆₈₇ 📅₁₀₀₅ — Command handling middleware for Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) applications.
• ex_admin ⭐₁₁₉₂ 📅₂₇₉₁ — ExAdmin is an auto administration package for Elixir and the Phoenix Framework.
• plug ⭐₂₆₄₀ 📅₉₆₈ — A specification and conveniences for composable modules in between web applications.
• surface ⭐₁₈₄₁ 📅₉₆₆ — A server-side rendering component library for Phoenix.

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• n2o ⭐₁₃₁₈ 📅₉₉₁ — Distributed Application Server.
• phoenix ⭐₁₉₄₂₂ 📅₉₆₆ — Elixir Web Framework targeting full-featured, fault tolerant applications with realtime functionality.

GUI

Libraries for writing Graphical User Interfaces.

• scenic ⭐₁₈₃₈ 📅₉₉₄ — Portable 2D UI framework.

Hardware

Hardware related things like I/O interfaces and such.

• nerves ⭐₂₀₁₂ 📅₉₇₃ — 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 ⭐₁₈₆₄ 📅₉₈₅ — A simple HTML parser that enables searching using CSS like selectors.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP and scraping websites.

• finch ⭐₁₀₄₈ 📅₉₇₁ — An HTTP client with a focus on performance, built on top of Mint and NimblePool.
• hackney ⭐₁₂₇₂ 📅₉₉₁ — Simple HTTP client written in Erlang.
• httpoison ⭐₂₁₄₁ 📅₉₈₃ — Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney.
• mint ⭐₁₂₂₇ 📅₉₆₄ — Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2.
• mochiweb ⭐₁₈₃₇ 📅₉₆₄ — MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.
• tesla ⭐₁₈₂₀ 📅₉₈₂ — HTTP client library, with support for middleware and multiple adapters.

JSON

Libraries and implementations working with JSON.

• jason ⭐₁₄₃₉ 📅₁₁₅₀ — A blazing fast JSON parser and generator in pure Elixir.
• poison ⭐₁₉₇₂ 📅₁₄₇₃ — 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 ⭐₁₁₄₀ 📅₂₀₉₃ — Compiler allowing to translate Elm programming language code to Elixir.

Miscellaneous

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

• AtomVM ⭐₁₁₄₇ 📅₉₆₀ — AtomVM allows to run Elixir/Erlang code on embedded devices such as ESP32 and STM32 microcontrollers.

Native Implemented Functions

Tools and libraries working with Erlang NIF.

• Rustler ⭐₃₇₁₄ 📅₉₆₅ — Library for writing NIFs for Erlang or Elixir safely in Rust. No segfaults.

Networking

Libraries and tools for using network related stuff.

• Firezone ⭐₄₀₄₄ 📅₉₆₂ — 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.

ORM and Datamapping

Libraries that implement object-relational mapping or datamapping techniques.

• ecto ⭐₅₇₂₉ 📅₉₆₄ — A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir.

Protocols

Special protocol and format libraries.

• grpc-elixir ⭐₁₂₁₇ 📅₁₀₀₁ — The Elixir implementation of gRPC.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• broadway ⭐₂₀₆₉ 📅₉₆₂ — Concurrent and multi-stage data ingestion and data processing with Elixir.
• exq ⭐₁₄₁₄ 📅₁₀₄₈ — Job processing library for Elixir - compatible with Resque/Sidekiq.
• oban ⭐₂₅₆₄ 📅₉₆₄ — Robust asynchronous job processor powered by Elixir and modern PostgreSQL.

Release Management

Libraries and tools for release management.

• distillery ⭐₂₉₄₂ 📅₉₆₃ — A pure Elixir implementation of release packaging functionality for the Erlang VM.

REST and API

Libraries and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.

• maru ⭐₁₃₁₂ 📅₂₃₃₁ — Elixir copy of grape for creating REST-like APIs.

Security

Libraries and tools regarding security.

• Ockam ⭐₃₀₆₉ 📅₉₆₂ — 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 ⭐₁₄₄₉ 📅₉₈₂ — Security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• ex_machina ⭐₁₈₀₈ 📅₁₁₄₀ — Flexible test factories for Elixir. Works out of the box with Ecto and Ecto associations.
• hound ⭐₁₃₂₅ 📅₁₈₈₉ — Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation.
• mox ⭐₁₁₈₀ 📅₁₀₂₃ — Mocks and explicit contracts for Elixir.
• wallaby ⭐₁₄₆₆ 📅₉₈₀ — Wallaby helps test your web applications by simulating user interactions concurrently and manages browsers.

WebAssembly

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

• lumen ⭐₃₃₈₁ 📅₉₉₇ — An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly.