chip

A pure gleam process registry that plays along types and gleam OTP abstractions. Will automatically delist dead processes.

Example

import gleam/erlang/process
import chip

// Names can be built out of any primitive or even types.
type Name {
  A
  B
}

// We can start the registry and register a new subject 
let assert Ok(registry) = chip.start()
chip.register(registry, A, process.new_subject())

// If we lose scope of our processes, just look it up in the registry!
let assert Ok(subject) = chip.find(registry, A)
let assert Error(chip.NotFound) = chip.find(registry, B)

Feature-wise its still very basic but planning to integrate:

• via helper to initialize processes through the registry
• Being able to manage process groups.
• Dynamic dispatch helpers for pub-sub behaviour.

Other features which are out of scope at this stage:

• Match-spec lookup.
• Multi-node distribution.
• General performance (ets, partitions, multi-process dispatch, efficient lookups).

Installation

You can If available on Hex this package can be added to your Gleam project:

gleam add chip

and its documentation can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/chip.