Awesome Elixir

A curated list of amazingly awesome Elixir libraries, resources and shiny thing inspired by awesome-php.

• Awesome Elixir
  • Actors
  • Algorithms and Datastructures
  • Authentication
  • Build Tools
  • Caching
  • Code Analysis
  • Configuration
  • CSV
  • Date and Time
  • Debugging
  • Files and Directories
  • Framework Components
  • Frameworks
  • Geolocation
  • Hardware
  • HTTP
  • Images
  • JSON
  • Markdown
  • Miscellaneous
  • Networking
  • ORM and Datamapping
  • OTP
  • Package Management
  • Protocols
  • Queue
  • Release Management
  • REST and API
  • Static Page Generation
  • Statistics
  • Testing
  • Text and Numbers
  • Third Party APIs
  • Translations and Internationalizations
  • Validations
  • XML
• Resources
  • Books
  • Other Awesome Lists
  • Reading
  • Screencasts
  • Websites
• Contributing

Actors

Libraries and tools for working with actors and such.

• exactor - Helpers for easier implementation of actors in Elixir.
• poolboy - A hunky Erlang worker pool factory.
• workex - Backpressure and flow control in EVM processes.

Algorithms and Datastructures

Libraries and implementations of algorithms and datastructures.

• array - An Elixir wrapper library for Erlang's array.
• hash_ring_ex - A consistent hash ring implemention for Elixir.
• lfsr - Elixir implementation of a binary Galois Linear Feedback Shift Register.
• fsm - Finite state machine as a functional data structure.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• oauther - An OAuth 1.0 implementation for Elixir.

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools.

• ExMake - A modern, scriptable, dependency-based build tool loosely based on Make principles.
• rotor - Super-simple build system for Elixir.
• coffee_rotor - Rotor plugin to compile CoffeeScript files.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• con_cache - ConCache is an ETS based key/value storage.

Code Analysis

Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.

• coverex - Coverage Reports for Elixir.
• excoveralls - Coverage report tool for Elixir with coveralls.io integration.
• exprof - A simple code profiler for Elixir using eprof.
• dialyxir - Mix tasks to simplify use of Dialyzer in Elixir projects.

Configuration

Libraries and tools working with configurations

• figaro - Simple Elixir project configuration.
• conform - Easy release configuration for Elixir apps.
• ex_conf - Simple Elixir Configuration Management.

CSV

Libraries and implementations working with CSV.

• cesso - CSV handling library for Elixir.
• csvlixir - A CSV reading/writing application for Elixir.
• ex_csv - CSV for Elixir.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• chronos - An elixir date/time library.
• timex - Easy to use Date and Time modules for Elixir.
• timex_interval - A date/time interval library for Elixir projects, based on Timex.
• moment - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in Elixir.

Debugging

Libraries and tools for debugging code and applications.

• dbg - Distributed tracing for Elixir.
• booter - Boot an Elixir application step by step.

Files and Directories

Libraries and implementations for working with files and directories.

• dir_walker - DirWalker lazily traverses one or more directory trees, depth first, returning successive file names.
• radpath - A path library for Elixir inspired by Python path libraries.

Framework Components

Standalone component from web development frameworks.

• flinch - Resource layer for Phoenix and Ecto projects for auto-generated RESTful CRUD APIs.
• plug - A specification and conveniences for composable modules in between web applications.
• webassembly - Web DSL for Elixir.

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• dynamo - Dynamo is an experimental web framework that runs on Elixir.
• phoenix - Elixir Web Framework targeting full-featured, fault tolerant applications with realtime functionality.
• placid - A REST toolkit for building highly-scalable and fault-tolerant HTTP APIs with Elixir.
• sugar - Modular web framework for Elixir.
• weber - Web framework for Elixir inspired by Rails.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• geo - A collection of GIS functions for Elixir.

Hardware

Hardware related things like I/O interfaces and such.

• elixir_ale - Elixir access to hardware I/O interfaces such as GPIO, I2C, and SPI.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP and scraping websites.

• cauldron - An HTTP/SPDY server as a library.
• exvcr - HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR.
• httpoison - Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney.
• httpotion - Fancy HTTP client for Elixir, based on ibrowse.
• httprot - HTTP client library.

Images

Libraries for working with and manipulating images.

• exexif - Pure elixir library to extract tiff and exif metadata from jpeg files.

JSON

Libraries and implementations working with JSON.

• exjson - JSON parser and genarator in Elixir.
• jazz - Yet another library to handle JSON in Elixir.
• joken - Encodes and decodes JSON Web Tokens.
• jsex - json for elixir.
• jsx - an erlang application for consuming, producing and manipulating json.
• jsxn - jsx but with maps.

Markdown

Libraries and tools working with Markdown and such.

• discount - Elixir NIF for discount, a Markdown parser.
• earmark - Markdown parser for Elixir.

Miscellaneous

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

• Apex - Awesome Print for Elixir.
• ex2ms - Translates Elixir functions to match specifications for use with ets.
• exprint - A printf / sprintf library for Elixir. It works as a wrapper for :io.format.
• exquisite - LINQ-like match_spec generation for Elixir.
• ex_rated - Simple and flexible rate-limiting for API's or anything.
• funnel - Streaming Elixir API built upon ElasticSearch's percolation.
• mdef - Easily define multiple function heads in elixir.
• porcelain - Porcelain implements a saner approach to launching and communicating with external OS processes from Elixir.
• reprise - Simplified module reloader for Elixir.
• spawndir - Spawns processes from the file system.

Networking

Libraries and tools for using network related stuff.

• chatty - A basic IRC client that is most useful for writing a bot.
• ExIrc - IRC client adapter for Elixir projects.
• reagent - reagent is a socket acceptor pool for Elixir.
• socket - Socket wrapping for Elixir.
• wpa_supplicant - Elixir interface to the wpa_supplicant.

ORM and Datamapping

Libraries that implement object-relational mapping or datamapping techniques.

• atlas - Object Relational Mapper for Elixir.
• dexts - Disk Elixir Terms Storage, dest wrapper.
• ecto - A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir.
• exredis - Redis client for Elixir.
• exts - Elixir Terms Storage, ets wrapper.
• postgrex - PostgreSQL driver for Elixir.
• ssdb_elixir - ssdb client for Elixir with focus on performance.

OTP

Libraries for working with OTP related things.

• core - Library for selective receive OTP processes.
• libex_config - Helpers for accessing OTP application configuration.

Package Management

Libraries and tools for package and dependency management.

• Hex - A package manager for the Erlang ecosystem.

Protocols

Special protocol and format libraries.

• message_pack - MessagePack Implementation for Elixir.
• exprotobuf - Protocol Buffers in Elixir made easy.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• exrabbit - RabbitMQ bindings and DSL for Elixir.

Release Management

Libraries and tools for release management.

• exrm - Automatically generate a release for your Elixir project.
• exrm_rpm - Create a rpm for your elixir release with ease.

REST and API

Libraries and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.

• lazymaru - Elixir copy of grape for creating REST-like APIs.
• signaturex - Simple key/secret based authentication for APIs.
• urna - Urna is a simple DSL around cauldron to implement REST services.

Static Page Generation

Tools and libraries for generating static websites and content.

• coil - Minimalistic static content engine.

Statistics

Libraries around the topic statistics.

• statistics - Some basic statistical functions for Elixir.
• descriptive_statistics - Descriptive Statistics for Elixir.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• amrita - A polite, well mannered and thoroughly upstanding testing framework for Elixir.
• excheck - Property-based testing library for Elixir (QuickCheck style).
• faker - Faker is pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
• hound - Elixir library for writing integration tests and browser automation.

Text and Numbers

Libraries for parsing and manipulating text and numbers.

• calliope - An elixir haml parser.
• cldr - cldr is a library to use information from CLDR data.
• colorful - Elixir macros to decorate characters on CUI.
• colors - Colors util written in Elixir.
• decimal - Arbitrary precision decimal arithmetic for Elixir.
• event_source_encoder - Encode data into EventSource compliant data.
• inflex - An Inflector library for Elixir.
• pinyin - chinese pinyin lib for elixir.
• saltie - Saltie is a pseudo-encryption library primarily used for obfuscating numerical identifiers to opaque strings.
• uuid - UUID generator and utilities for Elixir.
• exmoji - Emoji encoding swiss army knife for Elixir/Erlang.

Third Party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

• balanced - Balanced Api Client for Elixir.
• currently - A tool to display cards currently assigns on Trello.
• dpd_client - An API client for the DPD service.
• dropbox - Dropbox Core API client for Elixir.
• exgravatar - An Elixir module for generating Gravatar urls.
• extwitter - Twitter client library for elixir.
• ex_omegle - A minimal Omegle chat client library for Elixir.
• facebook - Facebook Graph API Wrapper written in Elixir.
• parsex - ParsEx is an Elixir HTTP Client for communicating with Parse.com's Restful API.
• parse_client - Elixir client for the parse.com REST API.
• reap - Reap is a simple Elixir library for working with the refheap API.
• simplex - An Elixir library for interacting with the Amazon SimpleDB API.

Translations and Internationalizations

Libraries providing translations or internationalizations.

• linguist - Elixir Internationalization library.

Validations

Libraries and implementations for validation of data.

• vex - An extensible data validation library for Elixir.

XML

Libraries and implementations working with XML.

• quinn - XML parser for Elixir.
• xml_builder - Elixir library for generating xml.
• exmerl - Elixir wrapper for xmerl.

Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your Elixir development skills and knowledge.

Books

Fantastic books and e-books.

• Programming Elixir - The book provides introduction to functional and concurrent programming with Elixir by Dave Thomas (2014).
• Elixir in Action - A brief intro to the language followed by a more detailed look at building production-ready systems in Elixir by Saša Jurić (2014).
• The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook - A book for learning Elixir and OTP through small to medium-sized projects by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao (2014).
• Études for Elixir - A collection of exercises to program in Elixir by J. David Eisenberg (2013).
• Introducing Elixir - A gentle introduction to the language, with lots of code examples and exercises by Simon St. Laurent and J. David Eisenberg (2013).
• Elixir for the functional Rubyist - Not yet released. By Johnny Winn.
• Erlang in Anger - This book intends to be a little guide about how to be the Erlang medic in a time of war by Fred Hebert (2014).

Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found at jnv/lists.

• Awesome Erlang - A curated list of awesome Erlang libraries, resources and shiny things.

Reading

Elixir-releated reading materials.

• Elixir Cheat-Sheet - A Elixir cheat sheet by Andy Hunt & Dave Thomas.

Screencasts

Cool video tutorials.

• Elixir Sips - Tiny screencasts for learning Elixir.

Websites

Useful web and Elixir-related websites and newsletters.

• Elixir Github Repository - The project repository.
• Elixir Github Wiki - The projects wiki, containing many usefull information.
• How i start - Elixir - Explanation and intro to Elixir by José Valim.
• Elixir Quiz - Weekly programming problems to help you learn Elixir.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.