Thinking Elixir Podcast
Description
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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