• Awesome Erlang
  • Package Management
  • Release Management
  • Configuration Management
  • Codebase Maintenance
  • Web Frameworks
  • Web Framework Components
  • HTTP
  • Testing
  • Logging
  • Monitoring
  • Deployment
  • Distributed Systems
  • Code Analysis
  • Build Tools
  • Geolocation
  • Debugging
  • Actors
  • Date and Time
  • ORM and Datamapping
  • Queue
  • Authentication
  • Text and Numbers
  • REST and API
  • Caching
  • Third Party APIs
  • Networking
  • Internet of Things
  • Algorithms and Datastructures
  • Translations and Internationalizations
  • Miscellaneous
• Resources
  • Websites
  • Books
  • Web Reading
  • Erlang Reading
  • Screencasts
• Other Awesome Lists
• Contributing

Package Management

Libraries and tools for package and dependency management.

• hex.pm – A package manager for the Erlang ecosystem.

Release Management

Libraries and tools for release management.

• relx – A release assembler for Erlang.

Configuration Management

Libraries and tools related to configuration management.

• stillir – Cache environment variables as Erlang app variables.

Codebase Maintenance

Libraries and tools to maintain a clean codebase.

• elvis – Erlang Style Reviewer.

Web Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• Axiom – A micro-framework, inspired by Ruby’s Sinatra.
• ChicagoBoss – A server framework inspired by Rails and written in Erlang.
• cowboy – A simple HTTP server.
• Giallo – A small and flexible web framework on top of Cowboy.
• MochiWeb – An Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.
• N2O – WebSocket Application Server.
• Nitrogen – Framework to build web applications (including front-end) in pure Erlang.
• Zotonic – High speed, real-time web framework and content management system.

Web Framework Components

Standalone component from web development frameworks.

• cb_admin – An admin interface for Chicago Boss.
• cb_websocket_controller – A template for implementing a Websocket controller for ChicagoBoss.
• giallo_session – A session management library for the Giallo web framework.
• simple_bridge – An abstraction layer providing a unified interface to popular Erlang web servers (Cowboy, Inets, Mochiweb, Webmachine, and Yaws).

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP and scraping websites.

• bullet – Simple, reliable, efficient streaming for Cowboy.
• gun – Erlang HTTP client with support for HTTP/1.1, SPDY and Websocket.
• hackney – Simple HTTP client in Erlang.
• ibrowse – Erlang HTTP client.
• lhttpc – A lightweight HTTP/1.1 client implemented in Erlang.
• shotgun – For the times you need more than just a gun.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• PropEr – A QuickCheck-inspired property-based testing tool for Erlang.
• tracerl – Dynamic tracing tests and utilities for Erlang/OTP

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

• lager – A logging framework for Erlang/OTP.
• lager_amqp_backend – AMQP RabbitMQ Lager backend.
• lager_hipchat – HipChat backend for lager.
• lager_loggly – Loggly backend for lager.
• lager_smtp – SMTP backend for lager.
• lager_slack – Simple Slack backend for lager.
• logplex – Heroku log router.

Monitoring

Libraries for gathering metrics and monitoring.

• entop – A top-like Erlang node monitoring tool.
• eper – A loose collection of Erlang Performance related tools.
• Exometer – An Erlang instrumentation package.
• folsom – An Erlang based metrics system inspired by Coda Hale’s metrics.
• statsderl – A statsd Erlang client.
• vmstats – Tiny Erlang app that works in conjunction with statsderl in order to generate information on the Erlang VM for graphite logs.

Deployment

Libraries and tools related to deployment of Erlang/OTP applications.

• docker-erlang – Basic Docker Container Images for Erlang/OTP.

Distributed Systems

Tools for stress/load testing, latency issues, etc. across microservices.

• Typhoon – Stress and load testing tool for distributed systems that simulates traffic from a test cluster toward a system-under-test (SUT) and visualizes related latencies.

Code Analysis

Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.

• Concuerror – Concuerror is a systematic testing tool for concurrent Erlang programs.
• eflame – A Flame Graph profiler for Erlang.
• geas – Geas is a tool that will detect the runnable official Erlang release window for your project, including its dependencies and provides many useful informations.

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools.

• rebar – Erlang build tool that makes it easy to compile and test Erlang applications, port drivers and releases.
• rebar3 – A build tool for Erlang which can manage Erlang packages from Hex.pm. See more at rebar3.org
• sync – On-the-fly recompiling for Erlang.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• erl-rstar – An Erlang implementation of the R*-tree spacial data structure.
• GeoCouch – A spatial extension for Couchbase and Apache CouchDB.
• Teles – An Erlang network service for manipulating geographic data.

Debugging

Libraries and tools for debugging code and applications.

• tx – An HTML Erlang term viewer, starts own webserver and displays any term you give it from your Erlang node.

Actors

Libraries and tools for working with actors and such.

• poolboy – A hunky Erlang worker pool factory.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• erlang_localtime – Erlang library for conversion from one local time to another.
• qdate – Erlang date, time, and timezone management: formatting, conversion, and date arithmetic.

ORM and Datamapping

Libraries that implement object-relational mapping or datamapping techniques.

• boss_db – A sharded, caching, pooling, evented ORM for Erlang.
• epgsql – PostgreSQL Driver for Erlang.
• mysql-otp – MySQL/OTP – MySQL driver for Erlang/OTP.
• pgsql_migration – PostgreSQL migrations for Erlang.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• dq – Distributed Fault Tolerant Queue library.
• ebqueue – Tiny simple blocking queue in erlang.
• pqueue – Erlang Priority Queues.
• tinymq – A diminutive, in-memory message queue for Erlang.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• oauth2 – Erlang Oauth2 implementation.

Text and Numbers

Libraries for parsing and manipulating text and numbers.

• ejsv – Erlang JSON schema validator.
• eql – Erlang with SQL or not.
• jiffy – JSON NIFs for Erlang.
• jsx – An erlang application for consuming, producing and manipulating json.
• miffy – Jiffy wrapper which returns pretty maps.
• qsp – Enhanced query string parser for Erlang.
• rec2json – Generate JSON encoder/decoder from record specs.

REST and API

Libraries and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.

• leptus – Leptus is an Erlang REST framework that runs on top of cowboy.
• rooster – rooster is a lightweight REST framework that runs on top of mochiweb.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• cache – In-memory Segmented Cache

Third Party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

• google-token-erlang – Google ID token verifier for Erlang.
• restc – An Erlang REST client
• oauth2c – An Erlang oAuth 2 client (uses restc)

Networking

Libraries and tools for using network related stuff.

• barrel_tcp – barrel_tcp is a generic TCP acceptor pool with low latency in Erlang.
• gen_rpc – A scalable RPC library for Erlang-VM based languages.
• gen_tcp_server – A library that takes the concept of gen_server and introduces the same mechanics for operating a TCP server.
• gossiperl – Language agnostic gossip middleware and message bus written in Erlang.
• nat_upnp – Erlang library to map your internal port to an external using UNP IGD.
• ranch – Socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.

Internet of Things

Libraries and tools for interacting with the physical world.

• GRiSP – Run the Erlang VM on an IoT board with many hardware interfaces and low-level drivers using a small realtime unikernel called RTEMS
• lemma_erlang – A lemma for IDEO’s Noam internet-of-things prototyping platform.

Algorithms and Datastructures

Libraries and implementations of algorithms and datastructures.

• datum – A pure functional and generic programming for Erlang
• erlando – A set of syntax extensions like currying and monads for Erlang.
• statebox – Erlang state “monad” with merge/conflict-resolution capabilities.
• riak_dt – Erlang library of state based CRDTs.

Translations and Internationalizations

Libraries providing translations or internationalizations.

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries or tools that don’t fit in the categories above.

• erlang-history – Hacks to add shell history to Erlang’s shell.
• erld – erld is a small program designed to solve the problem of running Erlang programs as a UNIX daemon.

Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your Erlang development skills and knowledge.

Websites

Useful web and Erlang-related websites and newsletters.

• Erlang Bookmarks – All about erlang programming language [powerd by community].
• Erlang Central – An awesome collections of erlang resource along with live community chat for discussing and seeking help.
• Planet Erlang – Planet site/RSS feed of blog posts covering topics across the Erlang ecosystem.
• Spawned Shelter – Erlang Spawned Shelter. A collection of the best articles, videos and presentations related to Erlang.

Books

Fantastic books and e-books.

• Erlang and Elixir for Imperative Programmers – Introduction to Erlang and Elixir in the context of functional concepts by Wolfgang Loder (2016)
• Learn You Some Erlang – Learn you some Erlang – for great good! A very thorough resource covering everything from beginning Erlang programming to large-scale development and deployment.
• Stuff Goes Bad – ERLANG IN ANGER – This book intends to be a little guide about how to be the Erlang medic in a time of war.

Web Reading

General web-development-related reading materials.

Erlang Reading

Erlang-releated reading materials.

• The Joy of Erlang; Or, How To Ride A Toruk – The Joy of Erlang; Or, How To Ride A Toruk A fast track introduction to Erlang that teaches the language by walking through a few example projects.

Screencasts

Cool video tutorials.