Awesome Elixir

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Actors

Libraries and tools for working with actors and such.

• exactor ⭐₆₇₀ 📅₂₁₃₄ — Helpers for easier implementation of actors in Elixir.
• 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 Battleship ⭐₅₂₀ 📅₃₃₇₀ — The Good Old game built with Elixir, Phoenix Framework, React and Redux.
• 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.
• poxa ⭐₉₉₉ 📅₁₂₈₄ — Open Pusher implementation, compatible with Pusher libraries.
• RemoteRetro ⭐₅₄₃ 📅₁₀₅₆ — 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 ⭐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).
• oauth2 ⭐₆₉₈ 📅₁₀₄₄ — An OAuth 2.0 client library for Elixir.
• phx_gen_auth ⭐₇₈₇ 📅₁₅₇₁ — An authentication system generator for Phoenix 1.5 applications.
• pow ⭐₁₄₇₀ 📅₉₈₅ — Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system (Website - Doc).
• ueberauth ⭐₁₄₇₁ 📅₁₀₀₅ — An Elixir Authentication System for Plug-based Web Applications.

Authorization

Libraries for implementing Authorization handling.

• bodyguard ⭐₆₇₃ 📅₁₄₆₇ — 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 ⭐₁₂₅₉ 📅₁₀₈₀ — Easy and extensible benchmarking in Elixir!
• benchfella ⭐₅₀₄ 📅₁₆₇₈ — Benchmarking tool for Elixir.

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools.

• relx ⭐₆₇₆ 📅₉₇₇ — A release assembler for Erlang.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• cachex ⭐₁₃₃₅ 📅₉₆₇ — A powerful caching library for Elixir with a wide featureset.
• con_cache ⭐₈₆₂ 📅₁₀₅₇ — ConCache is an ETS based key/value storage.
• nebulex ⭐₁₀₃₄ 📅₁₀₄₅ — A fast, flexible and extensible distributed and local caching library for Elixir.

Chatting

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

• cog ⭐₉₂₁ 📅₁₅₅₃ — Cog is an open chatops platform that gives you a secure, collaborative command line right in your chat window.
• hedwig ⭐₆₄₈ 📅₂₈₇₄ — XMPP Client/Bot Framework for Elixir.(Docs).

Cloud Infrastructure and Management

Applications, tools and libraries for your own cloud service.

• erlcloud ⭐₆₅₁ 📅₉₈₀ — Cloud Computing library for Erlang (Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, SimpleDB, Mechanical Turk, ELB). (Docs).
• 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).
• excoveralls ⭐₇₆₆ 📅₉₈₈ — Coverage report tool for Elixir with coveralls.io integration.

Command Line Applications

Anything helpful for building CLI applications.

• ratatouille ⭐₆₃₃ 📅₁₅₁₄ — A TUI (terminal UI) kit for Elixir.

Cryptography

Encrypting and decrypting data

• cloak ⭐₅₂₀ 📅₁₀₆₉ — Cloak makes it easy to use encryption with Ecto.(Docs).
• comeonin ⭐₁₂₅₀ 📅₁₀₀₉ — 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 ⭐₆₉₂ 📅₁₀₄₁ — A simple and fast CSV parsing and dumping library for Elixir.

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.
• gatling ⭐₅₀₀ 📅₃₂₀₉ — Collection of mix tasks to automatically create a exrm release from git and launch/upgrade it on your server.
• heroku-buildpack-elixir ⭐₇₉₈ 📅₁₂₁₁ — Heroku buildpack to deploy Elixir apps to Heroku.

Documentation

Libraries and tools for creating documentation.

• ex_doc ⭐₁₂₉₇ 📅₉₆₁ — ExDoc is a tool to generate documentation for your Elixir projects.
• phoenix_swagger ⭐₆₃₃ 📅₁₁₆₆ — Provides swagger integration to the Phoenix framework.

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.
• gen_smtp ⭐₆₄₂ 📅₉₆₆ — A generic Erlang SMTP server and client that can be extended via callback modules.
• 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.

Errors and Exception Handling

Working with errors and exceptions.

• OK ⭐₅₈₉ 📅₂₁₅₇ — Elegant error handling with result monads, featuring a simple & powerful with construct and a happy path pipe operator.
• sentry-elixir ⭐₅₅₄ 📅₁₀₄₁ — The Official Elixir client for Sentry.

Eventhandling

Sending/Emitting and receiving/handling Events in Elixir.

• event_bus ⭐₆₆₄ 📅₁₃₈₂ — 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 ⭐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.
• hexpm ⭐₉₈₃ 📅₉₇₂ — Source code for the hex package manager site built with Phoenix 1.3.
• magnetissimo ⭐₂₇₇₇ 📅₉₆₉ — Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.
• phoenix-chat-example ⭐₆₆₄ 📅₉₆₇ — 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 ⭐₈₇₉ 📅₂₁₉₆ — 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 ⭐₈₅₅ 📅₁₁₃₄ — 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 ⭐₆₃₀ 📅₁₀₀₁ — Flexible file upload and attachment library for Elixir.

Framework Components

Standalone component from web development frameworks.

• addict ⭐₆₄₈ 📅₃₁₃₆ — User authentication for Phoenix Framework.
• 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.
• scrivener ⭐₅₅₀ 📅₁₆₂₃ — Paginate your Ecto queries.
• surface ⭐₁₈₄₁ 📅₉₆₆ — A server-side rendering component library for Phoenix.
• torch ⭐₉₂₆ 📅₉₇₉ — 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 ⭐₉₅₂ 📅₁₈₂₉ — A framework for interactive dashboards.
• n2o ⭐₁₃₁₈ 📅₉₉₁ — Distributed Application Server.
• phoenix ⭐₁₉₄₂₂ 📅₉₆₆ — Elixir Web Framework targeting full-featured, fault tolerant applications with realtime functionality.
• RIG ⭐₅₅₇ 📅₁₂₁₅ — Create low-latency, interactive user experiences for stateless microservices.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• geo ⭐₅₇₁ 📅₁₃₂₉ — A collection of GIS functions for Elixir.

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.

• Crawler ⭐₈₇₅ 📅₁₅₁₇ — A high performance web crawler in Elixir.
• Crawly ⭐₆₉₁ 📅₉₇₃ — high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Elixir.
• elli ⭐₆₆₆ 📅₂₈₄₂ — Elli is a webserver you can run inside your Erlang application to expose an HTTP API.
• exvcr ⭐₆₄₇ 📅₉₆₁ — HTTP request/response recording library for Elixir, inspired by VCR.
• finch ⭐₁₀₄₈ 📅₉₇₁ — An HTTP client with a focus on performance, built on top of Mint and NimblePool.
• gun ⭐₈₃₇ 📅₉₈₆ — HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and Websocket client for Erlang/OTP.
• hackney ⭐₁₂₇₂ 📅₉₉₁ — Simple HTTP client written in Erlang.
• httpoison ⭐₂₁₄₁ 📅₉₈₃ — Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney.
• httpotion ⭐₇₂₉ 📅₁₂₂₅ — Fancy HTTP client for Elixir, based on ibrowse.
• 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.

Images

Libraries for working with and manipulating images.

• mogrify ⭐₅₃₃ 📅₁₂₀₅ — An Elixir wrapper for ImageMagick command line.

Instrumenting / Monitoring

Libraries for collecting and exporting metrics.

• elixometer ⭐₈₁₈ 📅₁₃₅₇ — A light Elixir wrapper around exometer.
• exometer ⭐₅₂₀ 📅₃₅₉₁ — Basic measurement objects and probe behavior in Erlang.
• telemetry ⭐₈₁₁ 📅₉₈₅ — Dynamic dispatching library for metrics and instrumentations.
• wobserver ⭐₉₂₇ 📅₃₀₅₇ — Web based metrics, monitoring, and observer.

JSON

Libraries and implementations working with JSON.

• ja_serializer ⭐₆₃₃ 📅₉₆₄ — JSONAPI.org Serialization in Elixir.
• jason ⭐₁₄₃₉ 📅₁₁₅₀ — A blazing fast JSON parser and generator in pure Elixir.
• joken ⭐₇₀₄ 📅₁₀₄₄ — Encodes and decodes JSON Web Tokens.
• jsx ⭐₆₇₈ 📅₁₄₄₇ — An Erlang application for consuming, producing, and manipulating json.
• 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.

Macros

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

• typed_struct ⭐₆₆₄ 📅₁₃₉₃ — An Elixir library for defining structs with a type without writing boilerplate code.

Markdown

Libraries and tools working with Markdown and such.

• earmark ⭐₇₈₂ 📅₁₀₁₀ — Markdown parser for 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.
• hammer ⭐₅₃₄ 📅₉₆₀ — A rate-limiter with pluggable storage backends, including Redis.
• porcelain ⭐₉₀₄ 📅₁₈₇₅ — 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 ⭐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.
• socket ⭐₆₇₇ 📅₂₁₈₄ — Socket wrapping for Elixir.

ORM and Datamapping

Libraries that implement object-relational mapping or datamapping techniques.

• amnesia ⭐₆₇₈ 📅₂₁₈₄ — Mnesia wrapper for Elixir.
• ecto ⭐₅₇₂₉ 📅₉₆₄ — A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir.
• ecto_enum ⭐₅₅₈ 📅₁₈₇₆ — Ecto extension to support enums in models.
• eredis ⭐₆₁₇ 📅₂₅₀₇ — Erlang Redis client.
• eventstore ⭐₉₄₀ 📅₁₀₀₅ — A CQRS EventStore using Postgres for persistence, written in Elixir.
• memento ⭐₆₉₂ 📅₁₃₈₁ — Simple Mnesia Interface in Elixir.
• moebius ⭐₅₅₃ 📅₁₁₆₈ — A functional query tool for Elixir and PostgreSQL.
• mongodb ⭐₅₄₅ 📅₉₉₂ — MongoDB driver for Elixir.
• paper_trail ⭐₅₁₃ 📅₁₀₈₅ — Ecto plugin for tracking and recording all the changes in your database.
• postgrex ⭐₉₈₇ 📅₉₇₁ — PostgreSQL driver for Elixir.
• redix ⭐₉₉₉ 📅₉₆₄ — Superfast, pipelined, resilient Redis driver 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.

• amqp ⭐₆₃₈ 📅₁₁₄₁ — Simple Elixir wrapper for the Erlang RabbitMQ client, based on Langohr.
• 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.
• honeydew ⭐₇₀₈ 📅₁₆₆₄ — Honeydew is a worker pool library for Elixir.
• oban ⭐₂₅₆₄ 📅₉₆₄ — Robust asynchronous job processor powered by Elixir and modern PostgreSQL.
• que ⭐₆₄₄ 📅₁₃₈₁ — Simple Background Job Processing with Mnesia.
• verk ⭐₇₁₀ 📅₁₅₄₇ — 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 ⭐₂₉₄₂ 📅₉₆₃ — A pure Elixir implementation of release packaging functionality for the Erlang VM.
• exrm ⭐₉₂₆ 📅₃₀₉₂ — Automatically generate a release for your Elixir project.

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.

• bypass ⭐₈₈₄ 📅₁₈₁₃ — Bypass provides a quick way to create a mock HTTP server with a custom plug.
• espec ⭐₇₉₂ 📅₁₀₅₄ — BDD test framework for Elixir inspired by RSpec.
• ex_machina ⭐₁₈₀₈ 📅₁₁₄₀ — Flexible test factories for Elixir. Works out of the box with Ecto and Ecto associations.
• faker ⭐₉₄₇ 📅₁₁₂₁ — Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
• hound ⭐₁₃₂₅ 📅₁₈₈₉ — Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation.
• meck ⭐₇₈₄ 📅₉₈₆ — A mocking library for Erlang.
• mix_test_watch ⭐₈₅₀ 📅₁₀₉₉ — Automatically run your Elixir project’s tests each time you save a file.
• mock ⭐₅₉₄ 📅₁₃₈₆ — Mocking library for the Elixir language.
• mox ⭐₁₁₈₀ 📅₁₀₂₃ — Mocks and explicit contracts for Elixir.
• proper ⭐₈₅₁ 📅₉₇₉ — PropEr (PROPerty-based testing tool for ERlang) is a QuickCheck-inspired open-source property-based testing tool for Erlang.
• wallaby ⭐₁₄₆₆ 📅₉₈₀ — 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 ⭐₇₂₂ 📅₉₇₈ — 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 ⭐₆₉₆ 📅₁₀₇₀ — This repository contains all the client libraries to interact with Google APIs.
• pigeon ⭐₅₆₃ 📅₁₀₂₄ — HTTP2-compliant wrapper for sending iOS and Android push notifications.
• slack ⭐₆₅₀ 📅₁₂₁₉ — Slack real time messaging client in Elixir.
• stripity_stripe ⭐₈₀₈ 📅₉₆₂ — An Elixir Library for Stripe.

Validations

Libraries and implementations for validation of data.

• vex ⭐₅₆₃ 📅₁₆₁₆ — An extensible data validation library for Elixir.

WebAssembly

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

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