209: New Admin Panel, LiveView Component Kit, and more!

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-versions file 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. Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Message the show on Fediverse - @[email protected] Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @[email protected] David Bernheisel - @bernheisel David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @[email protected] Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!