plug vs Raxx

plug

Compose web applications with functions (by elixir-plug)

Raxx

Interface for HTTP webservers, frameworks and clients (by CrowdHailer)

#Framework Components #Umbrella #Rack #elixir-webservers #Elixir #Web Application Framework #Cowboy #Ace #Web #Backend #Framework

Source Code

hexdocs.pm

Our great sponsors

Onboard AI - Learn any GitHub repo in 59 seconds

SonarLint - Clean code begins in your IDE with SonarLint

InfluxDB - Collect and Analyze Billions of Data Points in Real Time

Revelo Payroll - Free Global Payroll designed for tech teams

Our great sponsors

plug		Raxx
	Project
6	Mentions	0
2,690	Stars	396
0.1%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
9 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
Elixir	Language	Elixir
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

plug

Posts with mentions or reviews of plug. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-03.

Elixir for Cynical Curmudgeons
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2023

Yes, it’s a bit of a magic argument, but it’s the only unhygienic variable introduced with a Plug dispatch:
https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug/blob/main/lib/plug/route...
Everything else is explicitly passed, AFAICT.
I'm struggling with creating a rest api with Elixir - total noob
2 projects | /r/elixir | 2 May 2023

Have you read https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug ? Shows you how to do a GET in under 5 mins.
ElixirのHTTPクライアントでお天気情報を取得したい(2022年)
8 projects | dev.to | 8 Jun 2022
Request Coalescing in Async Rust
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Mar 2022

Coming from the Ruby ecosystem, a lot of this played out similarly to how the Rack[1] middleware conventions developed in the early Rails v1 and v2 days. Prior to Rack there was a lot of fragmentation in HTTP server libraries, post-Rack everything more or less played nicely as long as libraries implemented Rack interfaces.
I don't write Rust professionally, but it was a bummer seeing that this seems to be a place that was figured out (painfully) in ecosystems used heavily for web development--Javascript and Elixir have their own Rack equivalents[2][3]. I hope that Tower plays a similar role to unify the library ecosystem in Rust.
1. https://github.com/rack/rack
2. http://expressjs.com/en/guide/writing-middleware.html
3. https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug
Learn how to deploy Elixir apps on Heroku
8 projects | dev.to | 12 Feb 2021

If you're not familiar with it, feel free to check the inner workings of Plug in their documentation. For now, the code above is fairly self-explanatory I hope. All we need to know is that we're using the Plug.Router capabilities and exposing an endpoint /bpi which we're going to use to retrieve our data and to show it.