The Thinking Elixir podcast is a weekly show where we talk about the Elixir programming language and the community around it. We cover news and interview guests to learn more about projects and developments in the community.
209: New Admin Panel, LiveView Component Kit, and more!
News includes a neat trick we learned that setup-beam can do for GitHub actions by reading a project's .tool-versions file, Wojtek's insight on reducing SDK API surfaces, Ash's support for UUIDv7, the introduction of the highly customizable Backpex admin panel, a new LiveView component library called SaladUI and its unique ReactJS component conversion feature, Jose Valim's technique of using AI for testing function names, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/209
Elixir Community News
- https://x.com/flo_arens/status/1805255159460532602 – TIL setup-beam GitHub action can read asdf's
.tool-versionsfile and parse the OTP and Elixir version out of it. - https://github.com/erlef/setup-beam – The setup-beam GitHub action project.
- https://github.com/erlef/setup-beam?tab=readme-ov-file#version-file – Link to README section about the version file support in setup-beam.
- https://dashbit.co/blog/sdks-with-req-stripe – Blog post by Wojtek on reducing the surface of SDK APIs by focusing on data, not functions.
- https://x.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1805002425738334372 – Ash now supports UUIDv7, a Time-Sortable Identifier for modern databases.
- https://github.com/ash-project/ash/pull/1253 – GitHub pull request for Ash's support of UUIDv7.
- https://uuid7.com/ – Information about UUID7 as a Time-Sortable Identifier.
- https://elixirforum.com/t/backpex-a-highly-customizable-admin-panel-for-phoenix-liveview-applications/64314 – Introduction to Backpex, a new admin backend library for Phoenix LiveView applications.
- https://github.com/naymspace/backpex – GitHub repository for Backpex, a customizable administration panel for Phoenix LiveView applications.
- https://github.com/bluzky/salad_ui – SaladUI, a Tailwind LiveView UI toolkit that includes a unique feature to convert ReactJS components.
- https://salad-storybook.fly.dev/welcome – Storybook for SaladUI to explore components.
- https://ui.shadcn.com/ – React Shad/cn UI component framework storybook page.
- https://salad-storybook.fly.dev/examples/convert_shadui – Example of converting a ReactJS component to SaladUI.
- https://github.com/codedge-llc/accessible – Accessible, a package to add Access behavior support to Elixir structs.
- https://paraxial.io/blog/owasp-top-ten – Blog post on how the OWASP Top 10 applies to Elixir and Phoenix applications.
- https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/ – The OWASP Top 10, a standard awareness document for developers and web application security.
- https://x.com/josevalim/status/1804117870764339546 – José Valim's technique of using AI to help review or determine function names in APIs.
- https://fly.io/phoenix-files/using-ai-to-boost-accessibility-and-seo/ – Article on using AI to boost image accessibility and SEO, demonstrating working with OpenAI and Anthropic using Elixir.
- https://2024.elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2024 details, taking place from August 28-30 with various speakers and talks focused on Elixir.
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