Writing a migration script to run migrate/rollback/seed when releasing Phoenix/OTP app by Distillery

https://thefirstapril.com/2018/04/23/Running-migration-in-Distillery/

ModestEx - Pipeable transformations on html strings (with CSS selectors), e.g. find(), prepend(), append(), replace(), remove(), insert_after(), insert_before(), etc.

Get started in seconds with Elixir web applications using Raxx.

Generated project includes a lightweight web layer and automatic recompilation. Options include support for bundling JavaScript and using Docker.

Last one from me this week is first release of plymio_codi. Codi is a tool for building and compiling quoted forms for common code patterns. Think: bang functions, delegations. For example create bang functions for one or more functions in a module.

Another new package plymio_funcio. Lots of utility functions, especially for enumerables - including mapping elements concurrently in separate tasks.

First release of plymio_fontais) this week. It was written as a support package for the Plymio and Harnais package families but all the functions are general purpose.

Today’s episode covers one simple problem—how to encode Ecto structs into JSON.

There are a few ways to do it, but using @derive in the struct’s definition to implement the Poison.Encoder protocol is the cleanest way.

Mateusz wrote a blog post which explains CSRF protection in Phoenix.

The :elasticsearch package now has better support for Elasticsearch 6.x+. Read more in the Upgrading Guide.

https://hex.pm/packages/ace/0.16.1

Blog post explaining how Botsquad.com’s interpreted DSL for writing conversational apps and chatbots works, from an Elixir point of view.

http://www.botsquad.com/2018/04/14/beyond-the-dsl/

Talking about pragmatic approaches to asynchronicity in Elixir and introducing Rihanna, a brand new database-backed job queue.

http://samueldavies.net/2018/04/18/asynchronicity-in-elixir-best-effort-vs-guaranteed-execution/

New release supports connecting to multiple Elasticsearch clusters in a single OTP app or umbrella.

Release Notes
Upgrading Guide

We open-sourced a tool we use to manage translations in web applications, iOS app and Android apps. The app is built with GraphQL, Absinthe, Ember.JS and Apollo.

https://github.com/mirego/accent

How to backup and recover a Bitcoin wallet using Elixir?

https://k.lelonek.me/bitcoin-mnemonic-phrase

Learn how to resize image in Elixir using Mogrify

A couple of days ago benchee 0.13.0 was released - the most prominent feature is memory measurements. Go ahead and give them a try!

https://hexdocs.pm/weave/readme.html

Hi!

I just published errol, an Elixir library to write and run RabbitMQ consumers in an OTP manner.

It’s not production ready yet, so any feedback is welcome! You can find the roadmap in the readme :)

Anna Neyzberg, Amos King and I have started a new Elixir podcast. If you would like to have a listen you can find us at http://elixiroutlaws.com. We are pending approval on iTunes, Google Play, and Spotify. We are also on twitter as @ElixirOutlaws and would love your feedback.