porcelain vs contex

porcelain

Work with external processes like a boss (by alco)

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hexdocs.pm

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contex

Charting and graphing library for Elixir (by mindok)

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contex-charts.org

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porcelain		contex
	Project
1	Mentions	7
926	Stars	662
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	5.9
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Elixir	Language	Elixir
MIT License	License	MIT License

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.

porcelain

Posts with mentions or reviews of porcelain. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-22.

We Got to LiveView
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2021

contex

Posts with mentions or reviews of contex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.

Using SVG to create simple sparkline charts
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2023

Thanks! And thanks also for your work on ContEx, its Sparkline module [1] was a big inspiration for what I ended up implementing.
[1] https://github.com/mindok/contex/blob/master/lib/chart/spark...
A flexible charting library for Elixir server side charting
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2022
ContEx is a simple server side charting package for elixir
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2022
Phoenix LiveView, but event-sourced
6 projects | dev.to | 16 Jan 2022

Now, if you were using a server-side charting library like ContEx, then you would just append the new events to what you've already got assigned to the socket, and your normal rendering function would rebuild the chart. You're done! But I wanted to make it more complicated.
We Got to LiveView
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2021

https://contex-charts.org
> What’s the story in Phoenix and Elixir land for handling external shell processes from web requests
Great story here thru erlang ports. I'm a big fan of the Porcelain library which wraps ports with some nice features on top:
Server Side Time Series Plots With Elixir Phoenix Using Contex
2 projects | dev.to | 27 Jan 2021

Step up Contex!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing porcelain and contex you can also consider the following projects:

funnel - Streaming Elixir API built upon ElasticSearch's percolation.

phoenix-full-stack-work-sample

elixir-browser - Browser detection for Elixir

glimesh.tv - Glimesh is a next generation live streaming platform built by the community, for the community.

AtomVM - Tiny Erlang VM

phoenix-liveview-counter-tutorial - 🤯 beginners tutorial building a real time counter in Phoenix 1.7.7 + LiveView 0.19 ⚡️ Learn the fundamentals from first principals so you can make something amazing! 🚀

gen_task - Generic Task behavior that helps encapsulate errors and recover from them in classic GenStage workers.

webtransport - WebTransport is a web API for flexible data transport

netrc - Reads netrc files implemented in Elixir

sparks - A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code.

ex_phone_number - Elixir port of libphonenumber

live-paint - Demo pixel painting webapp with realtime updates across all connected tabs and browsers