swelham

swelham

Missing libraries and tools or those you can help with

Introduction

After some discussion with a few other members we thought it might be an idea to start a thread where we can post about libraries or tools that we feel are missing. We could also use the thread to organise ourselves into working on any that we might want to get involved with.

We’ll try to keep this first post updated with any projects that get started as a result of the discussions here, with a name of those participating and a link to the github repo :slight_smile:

Looking for contributers

OpenPantry
A management/user choice system for small-to-medium size food banks and pantry programs
Authors: bglusman komizutama
Repo: https://github.com/openpantry/open_pantry
Demo/preview: Guest mode on free heroku app

Google API Client - existing libraries are listed in the Google docs here and it would be awesome to see an Elixir library listed on that page!

Let’s Encrypt Client - a client library to support the Let’s Encrypt API (docs and existing clients). This standard is called ACME, so it should probably be named with ACME somewhere in the name to allow for easy finding.

Microsoft Graph API Client - the docs are here and the existing samples and SDK’s are here.

In Progress

OraLixir
An ecto adapter for Oracle
Authors: c-bik
Forum thread: Ecto Oracle Adapter
Repo: https://github.com/c-bik/OraLixir

commerce_billing
A payment processing library for Elixir
Authors: joshnuss
Repo: https://github.com/joshnuss/commerce_billing

cashier
Cashier is an Elixir library that aims to be an easy to use payment gateway, whilst offering the fault tolerance and scalability benefits of being built on top of Erlang/OTP
Authors: swelham
Repo: https://github.com/swelham/cashier

Social Parser
A small library for parsing out common social elements such as hashtags, mentions and urls
Authors: swelham
Repo: https://github.com/swelham/social_parser

blex
A Developer focused Blogging platform
Authors: Harrisonl
Repo: GitHub - Harrisonl/Blex: A Developer focused Blogging platform · GitHub

grpc-elixir
grpc-elixir is the Elixir implementation of gRPC, which is a high performance, open-source universal RPC framework used and made by Google.
Authors: tony612
Repo: GitHub - elixir-grpc/grpc: An Elixir implementation of gRPC · GitHub

vips
Elixir wrapper for VIPS command line
Authors: schultzer
Repo: GitHub - Schultzer/vips: Elixir wrapper for VIPS command line · GitHub

Getting involved

Please feel free to update this wiki (or reply to this thread) with your ongoing projects or new ideas.

First Post!

AstonJ

AstonJ

Nice one Stuart :023:

I second your original suggestion of a paypal library, or perhaps getting involved to add it to GitHub - joshnuss/commerce_billing: A payment processing library for Elixir · GitHub which is based on ActiveMerchant (they have Paypal on the roadmap so definitely worth pinging Josh to find out the status on that).

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peburrows

peburrows

Over the course of the last few months, I’ve actually made quite a bit of progress on various Google API clients:

  • Goth — a library for authentication via Google Cloud APIs
  • Diplomat — a library for Google’s Cloud Datastore
  • Kane — a library for Google’s Pub/Sub

While at Elixir Conf, I spoke to an engineer who is who is on Google’s Ruby team about my libraries; my hope would be that they might at some point be christened the official Google libraries for Elixir, but only time will tell.

If you’re looking to use Google APIs in Elixir, please check out the above linked libraries and let me know what you think.

michalmuskala

michalmuskala

Can we treat this thread as a wishlist?

I thing an approval testing library would be very useful. The idea is explained in here: http://approvaltests.com/

Harrisonl

Harrisonl

I’m in the process of creating Blex, a developer focused blogging platform. Based on elixir and Phoenix.

Idea is to create a minimal, easy to install/deploy, fast blog platform primarily targeting developers. This means features like choice between automatic syntax highlighting or github gist creation, post series, tech stack used, linked github projects etc.

Looking for help on this, so if you are interested either send me a message here or on the elixir slack - @harrylucas (or tackle a feature on the issues page.

Last Post!

danik292

danik292

Open pantry have last opened issue 7 years ago. Ist non active but I can try to work around this.
But I need help from you to make it happen.

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