Skua
Form-first UI components for Phoenix LiveView (1.1+) on Phoenix 1.8+: rich select, date picker, OTP input, dialogs, menus, tables, toasts and top-layer panels — server-authoritative, viewport-aware, themeable from 12 CSS tokens, with zero third-party JavaScript (one JS import, ~9 KB min+gzip).
A daisyUI replacement you install and manage through mix tasks built on
Igniter — including --strip-daisy to remove Phoenix 1.8's bundled daisyUI.
Install
One command — Igniter adds the dep and wires everything (CSS, JS hooks,
component imports, flash → Skua toasts, strips the default Phoenix navbar, and
scaffolds an editable starter home at /):
# existing app
mix igniter.install skua
# brand-new app — one-time: install the project-generator archive first
mix archive.install hex igniter_new
mix igniter.new my_app --with phx.new --install skua
(igniter.new and phx.new are Mix archives, not built-in tasks — if either
reports "could not be found", install it once with mix archive.install hex igniter_new / mix archive.install hex phx_new. Or skip archives entirely and
use the plain-Mix path below.)
Skua replaces daisyUI, so the installer removes Phoenix 1.8's bundled daisyUI
by default — it deletes the vendored files and bridges daisy's color utilities
(bg-base-100, text-error, …) to Skua tokens so existing markup keeps
resolving. Keep daisyUI instead with --no-strip-daisy:
mix igniter.install skua --no-strip-daisy
(If your daisyUI config was customized with nested rules, the installer leaves it alone and prints a manual step rather than risk mangling it.)
Without Igniter — add the dep and run the plain Mix task (Igniter is optional; the task still works):
# mix.exs
{:skua, "~> 0.5.0"}
mix deps.get
mix skua.install # --strip-daisy optional
mix phx.server # open /
Every step is idempotent — re-run any time after mix deps.update skua. The
installer degrades to printed manual steps if your app diverges from the default
layout. Local-testing notes in guides/local-testing.md.
Authentication
mix skua.gen.auth runs mix phx.gen.auth and then applies a flow on top. The
generated code is yours to edit.
mix skua.gen.auth --auth magic_link # default — Phoenix's passwordless flow
mix skua.gen.auth --auth otp # one-time-code login (no passwords)
mix skua.gen.auth --auth password_otp # password + OTP on one login screen
mix skua.gen.auth --auth custom # stock phx.gen.auth, nothing added
The otp and password_otp flows ship a production-grade one-time-code
login: CSPRNG codes (unique every time, never :rand), SHA-256-hashed storage,
single-use under concurrency (FOR UPDATE + transaction), constant-time compare,
a session-fixation guard, enumeration-safe responses, and built-in
Hammer rate limiting on both the request and verify
steps — all tunable in the generated config/config.exs. Code length and expiry
are flags:
mix skua.gen.auth --auth otp --otp-length 8 --otp-expiry 5
All three login flows (magic_link, otp, password_otp) wire a Resend
production mailer so the link/code actually delivers off-box (dev/test keep
Swoosh's local mailbox; prod reads RESEND_API_KEY at runtime — see the
generated .env.example). Run mix deps.get && mix ecto.migrate afterwards.
Pages
mix skua.gen.pages scaffolds editable starter pages and wires their routes (run
it after skua.install, and after skua.gen.auth for the auth-aware nav and the
dashboard's auth gate):
mix skua.gen.pages
- a shared
SiteNavinjected intoLayouts.app— section links plus auth-aware links (a signed-in user's email + Log out, otherwise Register / Sign in), HomeLiveat/— a hero with the live Phoenix + Skua version badges and a showcase of real Skua components,DashboardLiveat/dashboard— an authenticated page with a sidebar (Dashboard / Settings + Log out) and Skua stat cards.
Everything generated is yours to edit; re-running overwrites the pages and leaves
the routes and the Layouts.app nav injection in place.
Repository layout
PLAN.md— the full project plan (architecture decisions, installer spec, strip-daisy design, release pipeline, roadmap).assets/css/skua.css— the token + component CSS layer (the stable artifact).lib/— components, the install mix tasks (Skua.Install.Patchesholds the shared install logic), and supporting modules._component_defaults/— reference prototypes the library is being built from (styled-layer HTML demo, LiveView hook/component prototypes, and the skua.sh brand system). Not shipped in the hex package.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.md.