The Power of Declarative Design

ElixirConf · June 10, 2025, 1:00pm

ElixirConf US 2024 - Zach Daniel
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Topic: Framework Development

Modern applications are complex. They get messy and resistant to change quickly. As programmers, one of our most important and difficult charters is taming those complexities. Declarative Design offers a philosophy to help us do exactly that.

We start by exploring a set of practical principles that you can use to leverage declarative design today. These principles can be incrementally adopted in our every day code. Together, we go through some examples of how code can grow problematically without these principles, and how we can apply declarative design to turn spaghetti code into clean, easy to understand and communicate about code.

We finish up by showing how Ash Framework brings declarative design to the forefront, providing consistency, flexibility and power. We also provide a peak at recently release features and a sneak peek at what’s coming next!

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