Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest
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HN comment orderEverything old is new again. From my perspective as a Rails developer in the past, who landed on Elixir/Phoenix 10 years ago, Elixir and Phoenix were both born from Rails devs who were tired of Rails magic, keeping just the structure and bare minimum. I've watched Ash spring up and build steam over these past several years with a bit of dread. From my perspective, it's kind of counter to the philosophy I liked in Elixir. I don't want to…
From what I understand, Ash is an abstraction layer built in Elixir that makes it easy to model and work with resources. Like say, in Elixir, normally you define database resources in a pretty granular way. You write the migrations manually and define the schema manually (although there are generators to handle a lot of the boilerplate). Then you write the functions to CRUD your new model, etc. Whereas with Ash, I believe the ideas is that you define the…
a past discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37629719
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-04 | Ash Framework – declarative, compodable apps in Elixir, 2.0.0-RC, new website | lumannnn | 6 | 0 |
| 2022-12-30 | Ash Framework: resource-oriented application development framework for Elixir | a_bored_husky | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-01-27 | Ash Framework – resource-oriented application development framework for Elixir | willmorrison | 4 | 0 |
| 2023-09-24 | Ash FrameworkFirst breakout | gjvc | 115 | 33 |
| 2025-01-20 | Ash Framework: Elixir Back End Framework. Use with Phoenix LiveView | thunderbong | 5 | 1 |
| 2025-05-10 | Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the restBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | lawik | 277 | 121 |