BEAM Toolbox¶

A list of tools and libraries that are useful for BEAM languages like efene, erlang, LFE and Elixir projects.

Access Control ¶

snarl: A Erlang based RBAC server.
nkrole: a framework for managing complex relations among arbitrary objects in a riak_core cluster

Auth ¶

OAuth2
social: Cowboy handler for social login via OAuth2 providers

Build Tools ¶

Cache ¶

Fling: Cache library that promotes keys and values into mochiglobal objects
e2qc: Erlang 2Q NIF cache
cherly: Cherly (sher-lee) is an in-VM caching library for Erlang
leo_mcerl: leo_mcerl is a memory cache lib for Erlang

Clients ¶

kafkerl: Apache Kafka producer/consumer for erlang
ekaf: A minimal, high-performance Kafka client in Erlang
cqerl: Native Erlang CQL client for Cassandra
etorrent: Erlang Bittorrent Client
amqp_client: Rebar-friendly fork of rabbitmq-erlang-client
zeta: An Erlang client for Riemann
chumak: Pure Erlang implementation of ZeroMQ Message Transport Protocol

Cloud ¶

erlcloud

Command Line ¶

getopt
clique
escript
cf: Colored output for io and io_lib
etermcap: Pure erlang termcap library

Compression ¶

erlang-lz4: LZ4 bindings for Erlang

Configuration ¶

Cuttlefish
econfig: simple Erlang config handler using INI files

Cryptography ¶

crypto: Crypto functions
pbkdf2: A PBKDF2 implementation for Erlang extracted from Apache CouchDB
enacl: Erlang bindings for NaCl / libsodium
erlsha2: SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 implemented in Erlang NIFs

Database Clients ¶

odbc
epgsql
pgpool: A PosgreSQL client that automatically uses connection pools and handles reconnections in case of errors.
emysql
couchbeam
mongodb
redo: pipelined erlang redis client

Databases ¶

eleveldb
ETS
DETS
Mnesia
Bitcask
sumo_db
erocksdb: Erlang bindings to RocksDB datastore

Data Formats ¶

edn-erlang
erldn
transit-erlang: Transit format for erlang
msgpack-erlang: MessagePack (de)serializer implementation for Erlang
protobuffs
thrift
eavro
benc: Erlang BEncode parser/unparser
leo_csv: CSV Parser for Erlang

Data Structures ¶

StateBox
riak_dt
pqueue: Erlang Priority Queues
erlang-lru: Erlang LRU: a fixed size LRU cache

Data Structure Manipulation ¶

Hubble
Dotto

Date and Time ¶

dh_date: Date formatting / parsing library for erlang
qdate: Erlang date, time, and timezone management: formatting, conversion, and date arithmetic
strftimerl: Erlang implementation of strftime
erlang_iso8601: Erlang ISO 8601 date formatter/parser

Distributed Programming ¶

Riak Core: distributed system framework, the core of riak_kv
chash: consistent hashing library extracted from riak_core
plumtree: epidemic broadcast protocol
disco: Map/Reduce framework for distributed computing http://discoproject.org
nkdist: Erlang distributed processes
nkcluster: A framework to manage jobs at huge Erlang clusters
dht: DHT implementation in Erlang
syn: global process registry for Erlang

Fault Tolerance ¶

fuse: A Circuit Breaker for Erlang
safetyvalve: A safety valve for your erlang node
breaky: supervise and manage modules and processes depending on external resources.
circuit_breaker: Generic circuit breaker that can be used to break any service that isn’t fully functional
elarm:: an Alarm Manager for Erlang

File System ¶

fuserl: Erlang bindings for FUSE

Generative Testing ¶

Triq
QuickCheck
PropEr
eqc_lib: Erlang QuickCheck common library functions

HTTP Clients ¶

Interop ¶

Internet of Things ¶

gen_coap: Generic Erlang CoAP Client/Server
vernemq: The most scalable MQTT Message Broker. Powering IoT, M2M, Mobile, and Web Applications.
emqtt: The Massively Scalable MQTT Broker written in Erlang/OTP
emqttc: Asynchronous Erlang MQTT Client
rabbitmq-mqtt: RabbitMQ MQTT gateway

Javascript ¶

erlang_js

JSON ¶

jsx
jiffy

JSON Schema ¶

jesse

JSON Web Token ¶

ejwt
jwt-erl

JSON Patch ¶

json-patch

Load Generators ¶

Logging ¶

Lager
erlang-syslog: Erlang port driver for interacting with syslog via syslog(3)
chronica: Logger framework for Erlang applications

Metrics ¶

Exometer: Basic measurement objects and probe behavior
- exometer_json: exometer reporter to push JSON to a sink over HTTP
Folsom: Expose Erlang Events and Metrics
MzMetrics: High performance Erlang metrics library

Mocking ¶

Meck

Networking ¶

Damocles

Package Manager ¶

Hex
Rebar3 Hex Plugin: plugin to use hex from rebar3

Patterns ¶

Erlang Patterns: An experimental project to apply Christopher Alexander’s pattern language method, as outlined in The Timeless Way of Building, to Erlang programming.

Parsing ¶

Leex: lexer
Yeec: LLR(1) parser generator
Spell1: LL(1) parser generator
Neotoma: packrat parser-generator for parsing expression grammars
Aleppo: Alternative Erlang Pre-Processor

Parse Transforms & Erlang AST manipulation ¶

ast_walk: Walk the Erlang AST with the ability to mutate it and keep state during transversal
erl_id_trans: Erlang identity AST transoform

Performance and Debugging ¶

Eper
Recon
eflame
eep: Erlang Easy Profiling (eep) application provides a way to analyze application performance and call hierarchy

Plugins ¶

hooks: generic plugin & hook system for Erlang applications

Protocols ¶

erlirc: Erlang IRC client/server framework
mdns: More generic (yet another) mDNS, Zeroconf, Avahi client/server for Erlang
esmtp: Erlang SMTP library

Probabilistic Data Structures ¶

hyper: Erlang implementation of HyperLogLog

Products ¶

CouchDB: Database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScrip tfoi MapReduce indexes, anod regular HTTP for its API
RabbitMQ: Robust messaging for applications
Riak: Distributed NoSQL database with a key/value design and advanced local and multi-cluster replication
LeoFS: Unstructured Object Storage for the Web and a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent storage system.
OpenFlow: Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Zotonic: The Erlang Web Framework & CMS
logplex: Heroku log router
Chef: Automation for Web-Scale IT

XMPP Servers ¶

Ejabberd: World’s Most Popular XMPP Server
MongooseIM: Base platform for building high performance messaging systems leveraging XMPP

XMPP Clients ¶

escalus: XMPP client library for conveniently testing XMPP servers

Pub/Sub ¶

ErlBus
gen_event
West
TinyMQ
Syn: A global Process Registry and Process Group manager for Erlang
leo_mq: leo_mq is a local message-queueing library

Rate Limiting ¶

Release Management ¶

Relx

Routing ¶

Router
Cowboy Trails: A couple of improvements over Cowboy Routes

Scheduling ¶

ErlCron

Server Sent Events Clients ¶

Shotgun
Gun

Sockets ¶

Ranch
gen_tcp
Shackle: High Performance Erlang Network Client Framework
Tecipe: Lightweight and Flexible TCP Socket Acceptor Pool for Erlang

SOAP ¶

soap: Make it easy to use SOAP from Erlang

Static Checkers ¶

Statistics ¶

basho_stats
bear: a set of statistics functions for erlang

Security ¶

erlang-certifi: SSL Certificates for Erlang

Templates ¶

Testing ¶

Time Series ¶

Tnesia: Time-series Data Storage
DalmatinerDB: A fast, distributed metric store
RiakTS: NOTE: as of this writing, Riak TS is a branch inside Riak KV, the link may be outdated

Tools ¶

observer_cli: A sharp shell tool see erlang node.
erlyberly: debugger for erlang and elixir using erlang tracing. It is probably the easiest and quickest way to start debugging your erlang nodes.
visualixir: toy process visualizer for remote BEAM nodes, written in Phoenix/Elixir/d3.
edump: Erlang Crashdump Analysis Suite
kerl: Easy building and installing of Erlang/OTP instances

Utils ¶

Web Servers ¶

Web Server Utilities ¶

Cowboy Swagger: Swagger integration for Cowboy (built on trails)
sumo_rest: Generic cowboy handlers to work with Sumo
vegur: HTTP Proxy Library

Web Frameworks ¶

Axiom
ChicagoBoss
Tuah: A Simple Cowboy Frontend, inspired by BeepBeep

Web Sockets Servers ¶

Bullet
N2O

Web Sockets Clients ¶

Gun

Worker/Resource Pools ¶

Sidejob
Poolboy
worker_pool
episcina
gascheduler
dispcount: Erlang task dispatcher based on ETS counters
leo_pod <https://github.com/leo-project/leo_pod>_: A Fast Erlang worker pool manager

XML ¶

Xmerl
exml