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awesome-elixir

A curated list of amazingly awesome Elixir and Erlang libraries, resources and shiny things. Updates:

24Distinct people
26Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
13.2KGitHub stars
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A curated list of amazingly awesome Elixir and Erlang libraries, resources and shiny things. Updates:

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2015-02-05 15:19:30 UTC to 2025-10-17 02:43:15 UTC.

02468102015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC826
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Awesome Elixir A curated list of amazingly awesome Elixir libraries, resources, and shiny things inspired by awesome-php. If you think a package should be added, please add a 👍 (:+1:) at the according issue or create a new one. There are other sites with curated lists of elixir packages which you can have a look at. Awesome Elixir Actors Algorithms and Data structures Applications Artificial Intelligence Audio and Sounds Authentication Authorization Behaviours and Interfaces Benchmarking Bittorrent BSON Build Tools Caching Chatting Cloud Infrastructure and Management Code Analysis Command Line Applications Configuration Cryptography CSV Data Visualization Date and Time Debugging Deployment Documentation Domain-specific language ECMAScript Email Embedded Systems Encoding and Compression Errors and Exception Handling Eventhandling Examples and funny stuff Feature Flags and Toggles Feeds Files and Directories Forms Framework Components Frameworks Games Geolocation GUI Hardware HTML HTTP Images Instrumenting / Monitoring JSON Languages Lexical analysis Logging Macros Markdown Miscellaneous Native Implemented Functions Natural Language Processing (NLP) Networking Office ORM and Datamapping OTP Package Management PDF Protocols Queue QUIC Release Management REST and API Search Security SMS Static Page Generation Statistics Templating Testing Text and Numbers Third Party APIs Translations and Internationalizations Utilities Validations Version Control Video WebAssembly XML YAML Resources Books Cheat Sheets Community Editors Newsletters Other Awesome Lists Podcasts Reading Screencasts Styleguides Websites Contributing Actors Libraries and tools for working with actors and such. alf - Flow-based Application Layer Framework. bpe - Business Process Engine in Erlang. (Doc). pooler - An OTP Process Pool Application. poolex - Pure elixir pool manager. spawn - Elixir poliglot actors service mesh. Algorithms and Data structures Libraries and implementations of algorithms and data structures. aja - High performance persistent vectors and ordered maps. array - An Elixir wrapper library for Erlang's array. aruspex - Aruspex is a configurable constraint solver, written purely in Elixir. bimap - Pure Elixir implementation of bidirectional maps and multimaps. bitmap - Pure Elixir implementation of bitmaps. blocking_queue - BlockingQueue is a simple queue implemented as a GenServer. It has a fixed maximum length established when it is created. bloomex - A pure Elixir implementation of Scalable Bloom Filters. clope - Elixir implementation of CLOPE: A Fast and Effective Clustering Algorithm for Transactional Data. Closure Table - Closure Table for Elixir - a simple solution for storing and manipulating complex hierarchies. It provides in-memory and Ecto adapters. combination - Elixir library to generate combinations and permutations from Enumerable collection. conrex - An Elixir implementation of the CONREC algorithm for topographic or isochrone maps. count_buffer - Buffer a large set of counters and flush periodically. cuckoo - A pure Elixir implementation of Cuckoo Filters. cuid - Collision-resistant ids optimized for horizontal scaling and sequential lookup performance, written in Elixir. data_morph - Create Elixir structs from data. dataframe - Package providing functionality similar to Python's Pandas or R's data.frame(). datastructures - A collection of protocols, implementations and wrappers to work with data structures. def_memo - A memoization macro (defmemo) for elixir using a genserver backing store. dlist - Deque implementations in Elixir. eastar - A* graph pathfinding in pure Elixir. ecto_materialized_path - Tree structure, hierarchy and ancestry for the ecto models. ecto_state_machine - Finite state machine pattern implemented on Elixir and adopted for Ecto. elistrix - A latency / fault tolerance library to help isolate your applications from an uncertain world of slow or failed services. emel - A simple and functional machine learning library written in elixir. erlang-algorithms - Implementations of popular data structures and algorithms. exconstructor - An Elixir library for generating struct constructors that handle external data with ease. exfsm - Simple elixir library to define a static FSM. exmatrix - ExMatrix is a small library for working with matrices, originally developed for testing matrix multiplication in parallel. exor_filter - Nif for xor_filters. 'Faster and Smaller Than Bloom and Cuckoo Filters'. ezcryptex - Thin layer on top of Cryptex. flow - Computational parallel flows on top of GenStage. fnv - Pure Elixir implementation of Fowler–Noll–Vo hash functions. fsm - Finite state machine as a functional data structure. fuse - This application implements a so-called circuit-breaker for Erlang. gen_fsm - A generic finite state-machine - Elixir wrapper around OTP's gen_fsm. graphex - A library for composing and executing task graphs in elixir. graphmath - An Elixir library for performing 2D and 3D mathematics. hash_ring_ex - A consistent hash-ring implementation for Elixir. hypex - Fast Elixir implementation of HyperLogLog. indifferent - Indifferent access for Elixir maps/list/tuples with custom key conversion. isaac - Isaac is an elixir module for ISAAC: a fast cryptographic random number generator. jumper - Jump consistent hash implementation in Elixir (without NIFs). key2value - Erlang 2-way Set Associative Map. lfsr - Elixir implementation of a binary Galois Linear Feedback Shift Register. loom - A CRDT library with δ-CRDT support. luhn - Luhn algorithm in Elixir. lz4 - LZ4 bindings for Erlang for fast data compressing. machinery - A state machine library for structs in general, it integrates with Phoenix out of the box. mason - Coerce maps into structs. This is helpful e.g. when you interface a REST API and want to create a struct from the response. matrex - A blazing fast matrix library for Elixir/Erlang with C implementation using CBLAS. merkle_tree - A Merkle hash
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What Hacker News says

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> It's a piece of cake to create a deployment and everything is controlled through the one cli, mix. * It is not, despite your own familiarity. Erlang is in worse shape, using rebar3 ofc * There is no central package management. I want to know what library to include that will do X (or a selection of choices), if it's not in https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir, I basically have to crawl github. (Lua has the same problem). Past some toy projects, most people abandon these languages for more mature ecosystems.
In Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
And, by my estimate, Django has been around ~9 years longer than Phoenix. Comparing DjangoPackages[0] and awesome-elixir[1], sure you could say "there's an elixir package for everything", but how battle-tested are they? How well-maintained are they? If someone is trying to decide between Django and Phoenix, I am not sure how likely it is that the individual would have the necessary Elixir/BEAM experience to be confident in dropping-in erlang libraries. [0] https://djangopackages.org/ [1] https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir
In Onboarding to Elixir
linkdd·Apr 10, 2021Submission

Ask HN: Is Elixir Still Relevant?

Few years ago, I was developing in Erlang and a bit in Elixir. That was very enjoyable, because the features of those languages (and especially the OTP framework) makes many things way easier. I've been looking back at Elixir for a few weeks for one of my project, and I'm worried. 95% of the libraries I would need have not seen any commit since a few years. What's more frightening is that most libraries listed on awesome-elixir[1] seems to be unmaintained too. Almost like the Elixir community died 5 years ago (which I do not believe). Is this normal? Would you trust a seemingly unmaintained library? If not, would you implement all of that work from scratch? [1] - https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir
23 points · Open discussion
Elixir/Phoenix feels like Rails back in 2008 when we built one of the largest Rails app. It will take time for the community to develop. That being said, my company has been using Elixir/Phoenix for three years and while many times there isn't a library for Elixir, often times there is already a stable Erlang library we can use. https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir is a great source. We have also changed our habit from looking for third-party libraries to either building our own module which we discovered they are fairly easier to build than we thought, or coming up with alternate solutions that built on top of the powerful Elixir/Erlang technology (e.g. OTP).
In Changelog for Elixir v1.11
Phoenix is great! I only wish there was one recommended way for authentication and authorization - there are so many [1] different libraries that I got stuck in researching the options - I am confused, do not know which one to use. What is your preferred way? I would like to avoid to implement every little detail on my own - to get security done right was the main reason for me using open source libraries. It would be great if there was one official way to make it easier to implement app security with the framework. I feel that this is the only missing part in phoenix - but it is a very important one. BTW: does anybody know some tool that generates a phoenix api from a json-schema? Thanks! [0] https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir#authentication
In Phoenix 1.3.0 Released
I think that the package ecosystem is well developed, and getting better every day. For the most common things, there's already packages out there. You want to talk to a database? Use Ecto. You want to check code quality? Use Credo. You want to respond using JSONAPI? Use ja_serializer. You want to talk over HTTP to something? Well there's two main options out there (HTTPotion and HTTPoison). If you can't find a package then you could try looking it up at https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir or asking on the elixir slack (https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com/) or on the #elixir-lang channel on Freenode. After all that if you can't find a package that suits your needs then it's very easy to create one. "mix new (your project)" and away you go. That's what I did with my elastic package (https://github.com/radar/elastic) when I couldn't qui
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te find something that suited my exact needs. There's Elastix and Tirexs out there (those are the ones I know of) but neither really suited what I needed, so I just built my own. I don't know how it could be a deal breaker if a package didn't exist already. I'd encourage you to build whatever you don't find already existing and contribute back to the community.
In Why the Elixir language has great potential

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