May 17, 2022

99: Slipstream and Tree-Sitter with Michael Davis

43 minutes

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 [email protected]

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

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir

Email the show - [email protected]

Mark Ericksen - @brainlid

David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

Cade Ward - @cadebward