sotojuan
No amount of exercise or book problems replaces writing an actual library or application, but it can be hard for a newbie to know what to write. This is a thread that helps with that.
I’m looking for two things:
- General Elixir project ideas—things Elixir is good and well-suited for. Doesn’t have to be something new or worth putting in a portfolio.
- What libraries do you think are missing in the ecosystem? Writing something many others may use feels great.
Where Next?
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andre1sk
Forum software?
uranther
I would love to see more Elixir efforts around an open source ecommerce platform. The ecommerce options out there are downright depressing and this is an area where Elixir/Phoenix can really shine. See peach for a WIP (the only one I know of!).
andre1sk
We were looking for funding for e-commerce platform at one point. To be competitive the feature list alone is about 60 pages.
andre1sk
You are totally right though the existing e-com options are beyond horrible including Enterprise ones like SAP Hybris and Oracle ATG.
Qqwy
Although it is far from trivial, probably, I would like it if there would be a Lets Encrypt client implementation in Elixir/OTP, so we could have automatic, safe and free SSL certificates on our web applications.
uranther
+1
Qqwy
What would also be an interesting idea, is to create variants of the Erlang Lexer/Parser libraries Leex and Yecc that use Elixir-syntax instead of Erlang-syntax to describe their behaviour. See this wonderful guide on how Leex/Yecc work.
Interestingly, it would be possible to build this Elixir-Leex/Yecc-to-Erlang-Leex/Yecc-lexparser itself using Leex and Yecc (and maybe, just maybe, they could later become self-hosting).
jhosteny
I’d love to see an Elixir client library for ROS. I’m hoping to start one myself if I can get some free time.
dgamidov
@andre1sk could you please share this list (if you can)?
andre1sk
I can’t unfortunately share the list we created but it was greatly similar to Hybris:
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5lby2DAF-PbYXhWQmE0VkdVUDA/view?usp=sharing] (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5lby2DAF-PbYXhWQmE0VkdVUDA/view?usp=sharing)
Our differences were in Catalog management,
fully integrated DAM,
CMS,
CDN integration