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Essential Full-Stack Elixir/Phoenix Boilerplate Guide

Essential Full-Stack Elixir/Phoenix Boilerplate Guide

Core Features

1. Authentication & Authorization πŸ”

Complete user authentication system including signup, signin, password management, and session handling.

Common Requirements:

  • User registration and login
  • Password reset/recovery
  • Session management
  • Social authentication
  • Multi-factor authentication
  • User impersonation for support

Available Tools:

2. Email Management πŸ“§

System for sending and managing transactional emails with templating support.

Common Requirements:

  • HTML and text email templates
  • Email queuing
  • Delivery status tracking
  • Template management

Available Tools:

3. Database Management πŸ’Ύ

Database operations, migrations, and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM).

Common Requirements:

  • Schema management
  • Migration handling
  • Query optimization
  • Database backups

Available Tools:

  • Ecto - Database wrapper and language integrated query
  • Ecto.SQL - SQL adapter
  • Postgrex - PostgreSQL driver

4. API Management πŸ”Œ

API implementation with versioning, documentation, and security.

Common Requirements:

  • API key rotation
  • Rate limiting
  • Version management
  • Documentation

Available Tools:

5. Team Management πŸ‘₯

Multi-user organization support with roles and permissions.

Common Requirements:

  • Organization creation/management
  • Role-based access control
  • Team invitations
  • Resource sharing

Available Tools:

6. Asynchronous Job Processing ⚑

Background job processing with scheduling and monitoring.

Common Requirements:

  • Job queuing
  • Scheduled tasks
  • Job monitoring
  • Error handling

Available Tools:

  • Oban - Robust job processing
  • Quantum - Cron-like scheduler
  • ExQ - Job processing with Redis

7. Form Management πŸ“

Form handling with validation and error management.

Common Requirements:

  • Input validation
  • Error handling
  • File uploads
  • CSRF protection

Available Tools:

8. File Upload πŸ“

File upload handling with storage and processing capabilities.

Common Requirements:

  • Multiple file uploads
  • Progress tracking
  • File validation
  • Storage management

Available Tools:

  • Waffle - File upload toolkit
  • Arc - File upload library
  • ExAws.S3 - AWS S3 integration

9. Logging & Monitoring πŸ“Š

Comprehensive logging and application monitoring.

Common Requirements:

  • Error tracking
  • Performance monitoring
  • Log aggregation
  • Alerts

Available Tools:

10. Billing Integration πŸ’³

Payment processing and subscription management.

Common Requirements:

  • Payment processing
  • Subscription management
  • Invoice generation
  • Payment history

Available Tools:

Additional Essential Features

11. Feature Flags 🚩

Toggle features on/off for different environments or user groups.

Tools:

12. Admin Dashboard πŸŽ›οΈ

Administrative interface for managing application data and users.

Tools:

13. Testing Framework πŸ§ͺ

Comprehensive testing setup for all application layers.

Tools:

  • ExUnit - Built-in testing framework
  • Wallaby - Integration test framework
  • ExMachina - Test data creation
  • Mox - Mocking library

14. Development Tools πŸ”§

Development utilities and debugging tools.

Tools:

15. Caching πŸš€

Data caching for improved performance.

Tools:

16. Search πŸ”

Full-text search capabilities.

Tools:

17. WebSocket Support πŸ”„

Real-time communication capabilities.

Tools:

18. Internationalization 🌍

Multi-language support.

Tools:

  • Gettext - Internationalization
  • Cldr - Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
  • ex_cldr - Locale data

19. Rate Limiting 🚦

Request rate limiting and throttling.

Tools:

20. Error Reporting ⚠️

Error tracking and reporting service integration.

Tools:

Infrastructure

Deployment & CI/CD πŸš€

Continuous Integration and Deployment pipeline setup.

Tools:

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) πŸ—οΈ

Infrastructure management through code.

Tools:

Cost Estimation Table πŸ’°

Resource Usage 0 MAUs 10K MAUs 100K MAUs
Compute $20 $50 $200
Database $15 $50 $200
Storage $5 $20 $100
Email $0 $30 $150
CDN $0 $20 $100
Total/Month $40 $170 $750

Note: Costs are approximate and may vary based on provider and usage patterns.

Contributing 🀝

Feel free to submit issues and enhancement requests!

License πŸ“„

This guide is available under the MIT License.