alt Hacker NewsThe forms https://hexdocs.pm/ash_phoenix/AshPhoenix.Form.html seem even more low level than Django forms, and those are notorious for being too low level and annoying to work with. This to me seems to run counter to the tagline. Compare with iommi for Django where you can truly "derive the rest" from the domain model to get forms and tables.
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pydry • last Wednesday at 2:04 PM
This type of thing is the real measure of a framework.
Thank you for digging.
There is definitely room for the Phoenix Form helpers to do more. Iommi looks like a really interesting approach I hadn't seen before.
For example AshAdmin (https://github.com/ash-project/ash_admin) takes these ideas further and generates a full super admin interface for you. It's a bit clunky and you should ultimately write your own admin, but it lets you focus on the important parts first.
For anyone else who hasn't seen it Iommi's motivation and docs are here:
Motivation https://kodare.net/2024/09/11/why-we-wrote-a-new-form-librar...
Iommi Forms https://docs.iommi.rocks/forms.html
Iommi Github repo https://github.com/iommirocks/iommi