Utilities

General-purpose utility libraries and helper functions. Packages among the 3,000 most downloaded in the past 90 days.

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  • A tiny resource-pool implementation

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  • poolboy 1.5.2

    A hunky Erlang worker pool factory

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  • Track ownership of resources across processes.

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  • ctx 0.6.0

    Context carries request scoped values and deadlines

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  • BEAM friendly spinlocks for Elixir/Erlang

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  • faker 0.19.0-alpha.1

    Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.

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  • uuid 1.1.8

    UUID generator and utilities for Elixir.

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  • UUID generator and utilities for Elixir.

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  • Deep (recursive) merging for maps, keyword lists and whatever else you may want via implementing a simple protocol.

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  • retry 0.19.0

    Simple Elixir macros for linear retry, exponential backoff and wait with composable delays.

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  • A library for defining structs with a type without writing boilerplate code.

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  • ex2ms 1.7.0

    Translates Elixir functions to match specifications for use with `ets`.

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  • Pagination for the Elixir ecosystem

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  • Efficient batch loading in Elixir

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  • Map, Calendar, Digits, Decimal, HTTP, Macro, Math, and String helpers for ex_cldr.

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  • uniq 0.6.1

    Provides UUID generation, parsing, and formatting. Supports RFC 4122, and the v6 draft extension

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  • Erlang UUID Implementation

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  • money 1.14.0

    Elixir library for working with Money safer, easier, and fun, is an interpretation of the Fowler's Money pattern in fun.prog.

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  • backoff 1.1.6

    Exponential backoffs library

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  • nestru 1.0.1

    A library to serialize between maps and nested structs

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  • Providers provider.

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  • moar 3.2.0

    A dependency-free utility library containing 100+ useful functions.

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  • uuidv7 1.0.0

    A UUID v7 implementation and Ecto.Type for Elixir

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  • Additional standard library for Erlang

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  • puid 2.3.2

    Simple, fast, flexible and efficient generation of probably unique identifiers (`puid`, aka random strings) of intuitively specified entropy using pre-defined or custom characters.

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  • morphix 0.8.1

    Morphix is a small package of convenience methods for working with Maps, Tuples, and Lists.

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  • erlexec 2.2.1

    OS Process Manager

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  • nanoid 2.1.0

    Elixir port of NanoID (https://github.com/ai/nanoid), a tiny, secure URL-friendly unique string ID generator.

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  • Calculates the difference between two (nested) maps, and returns a map representing the patch of changes.

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  • This library fills a bunch of important niches. A Maybe can help you with optional arguments, error handling, and records with optional fields.

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  • Elixir fake data generation for testing and development

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  • Countries is a collection of all sorts of useful information for every country in the [ISO 3166](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166) standard.

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  • iterex 0.1.2

    Lazy, external iterators for Elixir.

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  • A small utility to convert deep Elixir maps with mixed string/atom keys to atom-only keyed maps

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  • Implementation of `blank?` in Elixir. Aims to work in a practically identical fashion to ActiveSupport's #blank? method.

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  • p1_utils 1.0.28

    Erlang utility modules from ProcessOne

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  • User agent parser library

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  • An Elixir friendly Enum module generator that can be used by itself or with Ecto.

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  • RedisMutex is a library for creating a Redis lock for a single Redis instance

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  • Fast semaphore using ETS.

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  • A declarative busy wait

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  • ShortUUID - generate concise, unambiguous, URL-safe UUIDs

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  • browser 0.5.5

    Browser detection library

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  • coerce 1.0.1

    Coerce allows defining coercions, standardized conversions, between data types.

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  • Handy functions for polling, rate limiting, and receiving.

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  • Unfold values on-demand from a function

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  • Elixir port of Breadcrumble library

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  • towel 0.2.2

    A delightfully simple monad library that's written for Elixir.

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  • bunch 1.6.1

    A bunch of helper functions, intended to make life easier

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  • pipes 2.0.2

    process pipe library

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  • setup 2.2.1

    Generic setup application for Erlang-based systems

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  • uid 1.3.5

    k-ordered unique identity

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  • Deadline is a small library for managing deadlines and deadline propagation.

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  • ex_ulid 0.1.0

    Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier (ULID) in Elixir.

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  • tdiff 0.1.2

    Difference library

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  • fe 0.1.5

    Collection of useful data types brought to Elixir from other functional languages.

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  • mutex 3.0.1

    This package implements a simple mutex as a GenServer. It allows to lock keys and handles locking multiple keys without deadlocks.

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  • uuid_v7 0.6.0

    UUID v7 with an 18-bit randomly-seeded counter. (Re: Section 6.2, from the IETF Draft.)

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  • uxid 2.0.1

    Generates identifiers like: cus_01EPEY1JMKXVBT and txn_01EPEY2P06TR1RTV07XA82ZGJJ. Includes Ecto type.

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  • ranger 1.4.0

    create ranges over any type

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  • Zero dependency platform detection library for gleam

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  • Collection of Awesome Elixir shortcuts and utilities ⚡

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  • Drill down into a nested map and filter out keys according to user specified values

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  • pathex 2.6.0

    Functional lenses for nested structures

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  • Send a message to the BEAM from a shell script

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  • youid 1.5.1

    Generate and parse UUIDs

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  • This small library allows the deep iteration / mapping of Enumerables.

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  • UUID generator and utilities for Elixir.

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  • Colour types, conversions, and other utilities

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  • ulid 0.2.0

    Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier

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  • remodel 0.0.4

    Remodel is an Elixir presenter package used to transform data structures. This is especially useful when a desired representation doesn't match the schema defined within the database.

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  • lens 1.0.0

    A utility for working with nested data structures.

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  • buffer 0.3.12

    Provide read and write buffers for Elixir

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  • sbroker 1.0.0

    Low level pooling library

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  • Split a stream into a head and tail, without iterating the tail

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  • ksuid 0.1.2

    ksuid is a zero dependency Elixir library for generating KSUIDs.

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  • An Elixir module for generating Gravatar urls.

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  • Fast no copy globals for Elixir & Erlang.

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  • tails 0.1.11

    A tailwind utility library for Elixir

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  • prng 4.0.1

    A Pure Random Number Generator

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  • mapz 2.4.0

    Extensions to the Erlang maps module

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  • poolex 1.4.1

    The library for managing pools of workers.

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  • Decentralized, k-ordered ID generation service

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  • resolve 1.0.0

    Dependency injection and resolution at compile time or runtime

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  • crudry 2.4.0

    Crudry is a library for DRYing CRUD.

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  • Constants and Enumerated Values for Elixir

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  • sqids 0.2.1

    Generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers

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  • Numerator does calculate paginations without creating any markup.

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  • useful 1.15.0

    A collection of useful functions for building Elixir apps.

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  • Chameleon is a utility for converting colors from one color model to another. Conversions can be made to/from RGB, CMYK, Hex, HSL, Pantone, and even Keywords. For example: "FFFFFF" -> %{c: 0, m: 0, y: 0, k: 0}

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  • A tool for generating random colours

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  • Utility function to efficiently merge Tailwind CSS classes in Elixir without style conflicts.

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  • An :elixir_uuid compatibility layer for :uniq

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  • Tools to handle three common return values in Elixir: `:ok | {:ok, value} | {:error, reason}`

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  • diffy 1.1.2

    Diff, match patch implementation

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  • Chained, semantic comparisons for Elixir

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  • Extensions for Elixir structures.

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  • Copy and paste from system clipboard

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  • binary 0.0.5

    Toolkit for handling binaries in Elixir.

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  • Convert different mappable types to each other in Elixir

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  • A tool to convert string map keys to atoms or atom map keys to strings.

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  • wild 1.0.1

    A wildcard matching library that implements unix-style blob pattern matching functionality for Elixir binaries. It works on all binary input and defaults to working with codepoint representations of binaries, but other modes are also available.

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  • Elixir Snowflake ID Generator

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  • maybe 1.0.0

    Nil protection for nested maps and structs

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  • Elixir library providing various ways of waiting for things to happen

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  • Helpers for waiting on asynchronous events

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  • miss 0.1.5

    Some functions that I miss in Elixir standard library (and maybe you too). Miss Elixir brings in a non-intrusive way some extra functions that, for different reasons, are not part of the Elixir standard library.

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  • Debouncer is a flexible function call debouncer.

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  • handler 0.5.0

    A helper to run functions that you want to limit by heap size or time

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  • Elixir library for generating random and unique names

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  • Simple functions for coercing Elixir Maps: atomizing, snake_casing, etc.

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  • Unsurprisingly, MapKeys is a module for manipulation of map keys

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  • Generates random strings

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  • ex_cmd 0.15.0

    Interact with external programs with back-pressure mechanism

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  • want 1.18.0

    Type conversion library for Erlang and Elixir.

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  • uelli 0.1.6

    Elixir utilities and custom guards

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  • aspire 0.1.0

    Each function performs type conversion if it is 100% safe. Else it returns first argument as is.

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  • uuid5 1.2.0

    UUID v5 type for Ecto.

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  • A utility library for NLdoc providing various helper functions.

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  • aja 0.7.4

    Extension of the Elixir standard library focused on data stuctures, data manipulation and performance

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  • Construct streams of values by specifying composable generator functions. For example list(tuple(like: {atom, string})) will generate a random length keyword list with random keys and values. Constraints can be applied at all levels.

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  • passgen 0.1.1

    Elixir Password Generator

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  • fab 1.2.2

    Fab is a lightweight Elixir library for generating fake data

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  • Library with otter common functions

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  • The Currying library allows you to partially apply (or 'curry') any Elixir function, in a very transparent way. It also optionally implements the infix operator `~>` as a synomym for currying.

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  • rewire 0.10.0

    Dependency injection for Elixir. Zero code changes required.

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  • buffalo 2.1.0

    Buffalo - deduplicated erlang apply

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  • 128-bit, k-ordered, conflict-free IDs Elixir.

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  • Client for Confluent Schema Registry

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  • ravenx 2.0.0

    Notification dispatch library for Elixir applications.

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  • Fully featured KSUID module in Elixir

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  • Keep track of revisions, versions, changes to your data. Persistence layer agnostic.

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  • maptu 1.0.0

    Tiny library to convert from "encoded" maps to Elixir structs.

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  • Generate color based on the given string

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  • exemvi 0.3.0

    A library to work with EMV QR Code Specification for Payment Systems

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  • Mixins for Elixir namespaces and Misc utility functions

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  • eval 1.0.0

    A Gleam package to help you thread state through a series of steps.

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  • Extension of common Elixir modules.

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  • Add a directory to dynamic DLL search path on Windows.

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  • koatuu 1.4.2

    KOATUU Ukrainian Classifier

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  • Generate random strings in a few different formats.

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  • A type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs

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  • A color manipulation library designed to work like chroma-js

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  • const 0.1.0

    A simple helper to define constants

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  • Elixir utils.

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  • A simple library that implements Enumerations in Elixir

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  • If Atom, BitString, Integer and Float values wanna be a boolean value, they can using to_boolean/1 function.

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  • purl 0.3.0

    Implementation of the purl (package url) specification

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  • tablet 0.3.1

    A tiny tabular table renderer

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  • mapail 1.0.2

    Helper library to convert a map into a struct or a struct to a struct.

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  • grid 0.2.1

    Formatter for tabular data

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  • given 5.1.0

    👇 Ergonomic early returns (lazy guards) for Bool, Result and Option types as well as list membership checks in Gleam!

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  • A flexible type mapping system for Elixir struct modules

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  • Provides simple debounce and throttle functionality

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  • ExEssentials is a powerful utility library for Elixir that serves as a true toolbox — bringing together a collection of generic, reusable, and ready-to-use helpers to accelerate Elixir application development.

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  • A library to transform map keys / structs into maps.

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  • Module to discover the CreditCard brand based in the first digits

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  • forgery 0.2.0

    A slim data generator that does not compromise extensibility.

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  • An Elixir library for searching and fetching controlled vocabulary authority terms

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