Ash

[ndrean]

Any experience with Ash? This declarative approach seems really interesting.

[nelsonic]

@ndrean thanks for opening this issue to capture the research into https://github.com/ash-project/ash 👌
We briefly looked at it a while back but forgot to open an issue.
It looks very promising but I don't immediately see the benefit over a standard Phoenix + LiveView App ...

Need to make time to follow https://www.ash-hq.org/docs/guides/ash/latest/tutorials/get-started 👩‍💻
to determine if it would be useful to us 🤞
or if it creates an unnecessary abstraction layer 🤷‍♂️
that makes debugging more tedious. ⏳

[ndrean]

Made me think of docker-compose over the Docker files, or Ecto over SQL. If you just make queries, the Ecto DSL (especially de "macro" |> one) is another - verbose, not so usefull - tool to learn over SQL. But as soon as you start INSERT data, then the changeset and multi abstraction with Transaction is pretty neat I think. I will try the example too, curious about the boilerplate served.

[nelsonic]

Yeah, I often feel that the Ecto Abstraction is annoying and less maintainable than SQL … but that appears to be counter to the consensus in the Elixir/Phoenix community. 💭

Again, very curious to investigate this. 👌

[ndrean]

https://jon.hk/elixir/ash/a-gentle-primer-to-ash/

To read, one day!