166: Filtering, ordering and pagination via Flop
Thinking Elixir Podcast
Introducing flop: An Elixir library for filtering, ordering, and pagination
This chapter explores the flop library, which simplifies the implementation of filtering, ordering, and pagination in Ecto queries across various projects. The speakers also discuss the challenges of pagination, the use of cursors to address them, and touch on key set pagination.
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
- https://github.com/woylie/ – on Github
- https://www.mathiaspolligkeit.com – Blog
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