Well, maybe we can also put BountySource on that list?
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gon782
Indeed, seems like a great site. Oddly enough I’ve never used any of these, but I’ve got a very strong urge at the moment to do it.
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swelham
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.
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swelham
Those look great @peburrows.
What triggered my initial thought about a Google API client was the need to access my Google Drive storage and I couldn’t see any libraries for that. I haven’t looked at this in great detail but at a glance it seems that Google appear to auto generate their client API’s (Ruby Client) using their Discovery Service.
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Eiji
I’m interested in support online storages too, but not in near future.
Think about CMS with upload videos from and to Google Drive or M$ OneDrive.
I would love to use multiple storages with same API (in Elixir) and same with Payments. Just select a payment type and do what you want!
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swelham
Great idea, I have added the MS graph API to the wiki.
I’m also planning on starting work on the PayPal integration at some point soon and looking for anyone interested in helping out!
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almasakchabayev
Hi @swelham That’s a really cool thread.
I am a self taught programmer and I think have just surpassed newbie level 
So don’t be harsh about my idea.
I find that there is a need for some aggregated Auth/User/Account library and I am not talking about competing with Guardian, but building on top of it.
We can all build email/password functionality with available tools quite easily. But most of real world projects require either phone-based authentication mechanism or social-based and sometimes both (for instance if you want to connect facebook account on top of already existing phone-based authentication). And there are quite a bit of stuff you need to take care of in both of these cases. For instance in phone-based authentication system one might want to
- store normalized contacts from multiple platforms
- when someone registers inside the system, get friends/contacts notified
- when connecting facebook account we need to somehow integrate that with other parts
- etc
For someone it might be easy, but not for me. I have been developing auth and account umbrella apps as part of my first elixir project for about 3 months now and spent quite a lot of time on these. I wished that there was a library that makes it easy to do or may be a set of libraries. Otherwise I am sure that not only me but a lot of other newbies and small groups of developers are just rebuilding this functionality over and over again.
So if anyone would like to help me build that I am happy to help and share everything I have on this problem.
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Eiji
Add library to integrate with social account is good idea, but rest (for example notify friends) needs to be designed in program that use this library. Otherwise privacy policy would depend on library restrictions (for example someone want keep user privacy and don’t allow that feature).
It could be special topic for that: “Missing support 3rd party services”.
At now we have:
- Storage services (like Google Docs)
- Payment services (like PayPal)
- Social/Auth services (like Facebook)
Tip: As you can see we have special rules for ordered list in posts on this forum
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