Ranked by how they treat first pull requests
The most beginner-friendly Elixir open source projects
Projects that merge pull requests from outside contributors and answer them quickly: the two things a newcomer cannot see before sending one.
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1. tuist/tuist Elixir
Your platform team, as a service
83% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
2 open beginner issues 5,815 stars
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2. etalab/transport-site Elixir
Rendre disponible, valoriser et améliorer les données transports
76% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
4 open beginner issues 236 stars
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3. ash-project/ash_ai Elixir
Structured outputs, vectorization and tool calling for your Ash application
77% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
1 open beginner issue 189 stars
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4. semaphoreio/semaphore Elixir
All-in-one delivery platform for AI-driven development.
58% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
1 open beginner issue 1,604 stars
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5. OpenFn/lightning Elixir
Lightning ⚡️ is latest version of the OpenFn platform, a DPG and DPI building block that governments use to manage complex service/workflow automation and data integration projects.
75% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
9 open beginner issues 296 stars
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6. phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view Elixir
Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML
71% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
1 open beginner issue 6,828 stars
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7. plausible/analytics Elixir
Open source, privacy-first web analytics. Lightweight, cookie-free Google Analytics alternative. Self-hosted or cloud.
60% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
4 open beginner issues 29,243 stars
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8. Logflare/logflare Elixir
Never get surprised by a logging bill again. Centralized structured logging for Cloudflare, Vercel, Elixir and Javascript.
54% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 2 days
1 open beginner issue 1,005 stars
How this ranking works
Score = merge rate × reply speed. The merge rate is the share of pull requests from outside contributors (anyone who is not an owner, member or collaborator of the project, bots excluded) merged in the last 30 days, smoothed as (merged + 1) ÷ (sent + 2) so a few lucky merges do not outrank a long record. The reply speed is 1 ÷ (1 + the median number of days before a pull request gets its first reply from someone other than its author, or is merged). Bot comments do not count as replies.
Listed: projects with at least 10 outside pull requests in that window, at least one open beginner issue, at least 10 stars, a push in the last 180 days, not archived, and measured in the last 30 days.