Most of us have created our own filtering, sorting and pagination code before in one project after the other. Mathias Polligkeit got tired of doing that too and created the flop library to wrap it all into a portable and reusable solution. We talk with Mathias to learn what it can do and are pleased to learn it's surpassed our own solutions. He also created a flop_phoenix package with heex components to help build filter forms and tables. A fun look into an interesting library!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/166

Elixir Community News

https://bsky.app/profile/josevalim.bsky.social/post/3k56qd2q2xf2g – A tease about noticing something new.
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/main/GenServer.html – Elixir docs getting diagram support? 1.16.0-dev
https://github.com/erlang/otp/issues/7292#issuecomment-1688181562 – Followup on that OTP 26 “overrun stack and heap” bug
https://github.com/phoenixframework/dns_cluster – The dns_cluster project was brought under the phoenixframework Github org
https://fly.io/phoenix-files/beam-clustering-made-easy/ – Blog post about new Phoenix library dns_cluster
https://github.com/elixir-tools/next-ls/releases/tag/v0.10.0 – Next LS v0.10.0 Released
https://open-vsx.org/extension/elixir-tools/elixir-tools – Next LS extension is listed on VSCode's open extension repository
https://twitter.com/ashframework/status/1692767604622922152 – The Ash Framework announced the new release of a double-entry accounting project
https://github.com/ash-project/ash_double_entry
https://hexdocs.pm/ash_double_entry/get-started-with-double-entry.html
https://thestackcanary.com/understanding-the-elixir-machine-learning-ecosystem/ – Post that connects many ML libraries to their Python counterparts.
https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1693669295585161394 – Elixir tip on using Elixir as a shell scripting solution
https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1693322879230672905 – Version 0.5.0 of DenoEx was released.
https://github.com/akoutmos/deno_ex
https://deno.com/ – Deno project is a "secure by default" Rust-based alternate JavaScript runtime
https://twitter.com/PJUllrich/status/1693232219198726620 – Tip on how we can use tags to more cleanly customize tests.
https://www.peterullrich.com/exunit-context-tags
https://dagger.io/ – Dagger.io is a programmable CI/CD engine that runs your pipelines in containers.
https://hex.pm/packages/dagger – Dagger.io now supports Elixir

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/woylie/flop
https://github.com/woylie/flop_phoenix
https://scoville.jp/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
https://elixirforum.com/t/flop-filtering-sorting-and-pagination-for-ecto/51750/25
https://hexdocs.pm/flop/Flop.Schema.html
https://hexdocs.pm/flop/Flop.Filter.html#t:op/0
https://relay.dev/graphql/connections.htm – Specification used in Flop library for cursor pagination
https://hexdocs.pm/flop/Flop.Relay.html – Format the result sets in an Absinthe structure
https://hexdocs.pm/flop/Flop.html#with_named_bindings/4
https://slack.engineering/evolving-api-pagination-at-slack/ – Recommended resource on pagination
https://hex.pm/packages/quarto – Other library that helps with filtering or pagination
https://github.com/drewolson/scrivener – Other library that helps with filtering or pagination
https://elixirstream.dev/tips/cfc62b74-3ad9-427e-b9d2-8e8c768f8c57
https://hexdocs.pm/ecto_psql_extras/readme.html#records_rank
https://github.com/woylie/flop_phoenix#liveview-streams – flop_phoenix with streams

Guest Information

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https://www.mathiaspolligkeit.com – Blog

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166: Filtering, ordering and pagination via Flop

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