Episode Details

We talk with Zach Daniel, the creator of the Ash Framework, a declarative, resource-oriented application framework for Elixir that lets you build out JSON or GraphQL APIs in minutes. In this episode he explains the history, guiding doctrine of Declarative Design how it can give developers a huge boost without boxing them into a corner!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/27

Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/commit/abbd5f0d85100997d8ed075feba440d2b44f8edd – Phoenix replaces nprogress with topbar
• http://buunguyen.github.io/topbar/
• https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/20-years-of-open-source-erlang-the-openerlang-interviews.html – Dec 8th marked the 20th Anniversary of Erlang going OpenSource
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/12/10/integrating-travel-with-elixir-at-duffel/ – New Elixir case study covering Duffel
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/10566 – PR improves compilation errors in EEx templates
• https://dashbit.co/blog/how-to-debug-elixir-erlang-compiler-performance – Jose Valim's blog post on his process for debugging and writing 3 PRs to Erlang/OTP

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

• https://www.ash-elixir.org/
• https://github.com/ash-project/ash
• https://github.com/ash-project/ – Github organization with the family of Ash projects
• https://twitter.com/ashframework/status/1320574354795757568 – Multitenancy announcement and feature points
• https://speakerdeck.com/zachsdaniel1/introduction-to-the-ash-framework-elixir-conf-2020
• https://github.com/sponsors/zachdaniel – Sponsoring Zach's work on Ash
• https://www.variance.com/
• https://hasura.io/
• https://www.albert.io/
• https://dockyard.com/
• https://activeadmin.info/
• https://github.com/smpallen99/ex_admin
• https://github.com/talonframework/talon
• https://www.ash-elixir.org/#h.gb0grln5a4v8
• https://hex.pm/packages/nimble_options