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Plug is a specification and set of utilities for building composable modules in Elixir web applications. It defines a standard connection interface, allowing developers to create “plugs” that act as middleware for handling requests and responses. Examples include parsing parameters, managing sessions, logging, or authentication, all of which can be plugged into a pipeline. Plug serves as the foundation for the Phoenix framework, which builds on it to deliver a full-featured web stack. The...

Ueberauth is a two-phase authentication framework that provides a clear API, allowing for many strategies to be created and shared within the community. It is heavily inspired by Omniauth. You could call it a port but it is significantly different in operation, but almost the same concept. Huge hat tip to Intridea. Ueberauth provides only the initial authentication challenge, (initial OAuth flow, collecting the information from a login form, etc). It does not authenticate each request,...