Michael Davis explains Slipstream, a Phoenix channels websocket client library that enables Elixir applications to become a client of a Phoenix channel on another server. Out of this work, an underlying websocket library was created built on mint, which has now officially become part of the mint project. We talk about other libraries in the same space and why Slipstream was created. Michael was also involved in the recent Tree-Sitter Elixir work that Github celebrated and he shares some insight into that work as well!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/99

Elixir Community News

https://twitter.com/remote_ruby/status/1522546728922226691 – José Valim was a guest on the Remote Ruby podcast talking about his history as a Rails core contributor and the creation of Elixir.
https://share.transistor.fm/s/7dc8e2e3 – Remote Ruby podcast
https://github.com/kipcole9/image – New image-processing library called Image that leverages libvips though NIF bindings.
https://github.com/libvips/libvips
https://github.com/lucasvegi/Elixir-Code-Smells – Elixir Code Smells project
https://github.com/lucasvegi/Elixir-Code-Smells/blob/main/code_smells.livemd – Elixir Code Smells Livebook notebook
https://litestream.io/ – Litestream project for SQLite replication
https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/ – Ben Johnson joined Fly.io and will continue work on Litestream
David's wife had a baby girl! Congrats! Now has 2 kids.
Next episode is 100 and will be the final visit José Valim in our series. Also covers future development.

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

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/NFIBrokerage/slipstream – Slipstream Phoenix channels websocket client library
https://github.com/NFIBrokerage/mint_web_socket – Separate library that uses Mint and supports websockets.
https://github.com/NFIBrokerage/slipstream/blob/main/guides/implementation.md
https://github.com/Azolo/websockex – Pure Elixir websockets implemented as a special OTP process
https://github.com/ninenines/gun – Popular Erlang HTTP/WebSocket client library from the same group of dependencies as cowboy, the underlying HTTP/WebSocket server for Phoenix
https://github.com/jeremyong/websocket_client – WebSocket client that underlies phoneix_client and phoenix_gen_socket_client. Appears to be inactive and it no longer compiles on OTP25.
https://hex.pm/packages/phoenix_channel_client – Retired library by Justin Schneck
https://hex.pm/packages/phoenix_client – by Justin Schneck “Elixir Phoenix Client for Channels”
https://github.com/J0/phoenix_gen_socket_client – Another Phoenix Channel client
https://elixirforum.com/t/slipstream-a-slick-elixir-websocket-client-for-phoenix-channels/37456 – ElixirForum post on Slipstream
https://github.com/nerves-hub/nerves_hub_link – A more prominent dependent of Slipstream. Slipstream is used as the default communication system for embedded devices to talk to the nerves hub (which provides firmware updates)
https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1521381183229210624 – mint_web_socket was just moved under the elixir-mint organization
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1521390714025758720 – Jose Valim recently credited NFIBrokerage for bringing even more contributions to the Elixir community
https://helix-editor.com/
https://clojure.org/
https://github.com/NFIBrokerage
https://www.eventstore.com/eventstoredb
https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint
https://github.com/elixir-lang/gen_stage
https://grpc.io/
https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter
https://github.com/elixir-lang/tree-sitter-elixir
https://elixir-lang.org/tree-sitter-elixir/
https://github.com/jonatanklosko – Jonatan Kłosko did the majority of the work on the Elixir Tree-Sitter library
https://github.com/gleam-lang/tree-sitter-gleam/
https://github.com/ninenines/gun
https://github.com/Azolo/websockex
https://hex.pm/packages/phoenix_client
https://github.com/nerves-hub/nerves_hub_link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2
https://github.com/NFIBrokerage/spear

Guest Information

https://github.com/the-mikedavis – on Github
https://github.com/NFIBrokerage – Work Github organization

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99: Slipstream and Tree-Sitter with Michael Davis

Thinking Elixir Podcast

99: Slipstream and Tree-Sitter with Michael Davis