27: Ash Framework with Zach Daniel Thinking Elixir Podcast

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
https://www.ash-elixir.org/community


Guest Information



https://twitter.com/ZachSDaniel1 – on Twitter
https://github.com/zachdaniel/ – on Github
https://zachdaniel.dev – Blog


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