- Framework -
-- What is Ash? -
-- Ash Framework is a declarative, resource-oriented application - development framework for Elixir. A resource can model anything, - like a database table, an external API, or even custom code. Ash - provides a rich, and extensive set of tools for interacting with - and building on top of these resources. By modeling your - application as a set of resources, other tools know exactly how to - use them, allowing extensions like AshGraphql and AshJsonApi to - provide top tier APIs with minimal configuration. With - filtering, sorting, pagination, calculations, aggregations, pub_sub, - policy authorization, rich introspection, and much more built-in. - Coupled with a comprehensive suite of tools to allow you to build your own - extensions, the possibilities are endless. -
-- Write it once -
-- Why do developers keep reinventing the wheel? -
-- Every time you start a new app, are you rebuilding features that you've already built many times? - Wouldn't it be great if you could just focus on the important parts of an app without reinventing ways to authenticate, add permissions, etc. - Ash allows you to not only use patterns in existing extensions, it lets you extract your own patterns into custom extensions. - So when you need to do it again in a new application, it's already done. Just wire it up! -
-- Consistency -
-- A place for everything and everything in its place -
-- Ash helps keep things neat and organized by providing good patterns for structuring your application. - Over time and with larger teams of different experience levels, - patterns change and drift away from each-other across our applications. - With that said, nothing in Ash depends on what folders or files you put things in, so you are - free to experiment or make the choices that make sense to you. -
-- Spaghetti belongs in the kitchen, not in your codebase. - Ash provides the ability to keep all similar parts of your application consistent, - making it easy to share an architectural vision while allowing escape hatches to do something different if needed. -
-- Incredibly Powerful -
-- Ash is more than it appears -
-- Ash is more than just auto-generated API or an Admin UI. - It’s a fully extensible DSL to model your domain, which creates a declarative, - highly introspectable representation. This in turn can be used to derive anything you want. -
-- Ash has built in extensions that allow you to generate Admin UIs or Phoenix LiveView Form helpers, - saving a ton of boilerplate. Even going as far as fully swapping data layers, Ash lets you do - something traditionally extremely difficult with ease. -
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