Usher

Usher is a web framework-agnostic invitation link management library for any Elixir application with Ecto.

🚧 This library is in its infancy so you should treat all versions as early pre-release versions. We'll make the best effort to give heads up about breaking changes; however we can't guarantee backwards compatibility for every change.

Have use cases not covered by Usher? Open an issue, we'd love to help you out ❤️.

Our use cases don't require heavy uses of invitation links. Have use cases that require a heavy use of invitiation links? Open an issue and we'd love to optimize Usher 🏃.

Current Features

• 🔐 Token generation: Create invitation with a single API call
• 🏗️ Framework agnostic: Works with any Ecto-based application
• 🤝 Flexible usage tracking: For tracking invitation link usage
• ⏰ Expiration management: Extend or set expiration dates for invitations, or create never-expiring invitations

What's planned?

• Invitations with no expiration date.
• Linking invitation tokens to user accounts (e.g. to track which user registered with which invitation): Added in v0.3.0.
• Cryptographic signing of invitation tokens to prevent guessing tokens.
• Web UI for managing invitation tokens.
• Invitation expiration after X number of uses (including one-time use links).
• One-time use invitation links tied to specific email addresses.
• Descriptions for invitation links so you can provide context for its usage.
• Add credo checks to ensure code quality.
• Add status checks and run tests on pull requests.
• Soft delete for invitations to keep them in the database for analytics purposes.
• Clean-up functions for expired invitations.

Installation

Add usher to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:usher, "~> 0.5.1"}
  ]
end

Usher requires Elixir 1.14 or later, and OTP 25 or later. It may work with earlier versions, but it wasn't tested against them.

Follow the installation instructions to set up Usher in your application.

Getting Started

Take a look at the overview guide for a quick introduction to Usher.

Phoenix Integration

Take a look at the Phoenix integration guide for details on how to set up Usher in your Phoenix application.

Configuration Options

View all the configuration options in the configuration guide.

Contributing

See the contribution guide for details on how to contribute to Usher.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Inspiration

We first built this invitation system into Accomplish and then decided to open-source it.