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

Find us online

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27: Ash Framework with Zach Daniel

Thinking Elixir Podcast

27: Ash Framework with Zach Daniel