mix_install_examples

You can get a similar effect in Elixir scripts with Mix.install/2: https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples It supports git-links as well as package names in repos and versions. Also happens to be a very nice and capable scripting platform, with a reasonably small runtime.

Ya, it's fair, it's a common complaint! Though the size of the generated files is nothing compared to Rails :D You're right that phx_new does count too. It's a bit misunderstood that Phoenix is actually closer to a micro-framework like Flask than it is a full-fledged solution like Django or Rails. What takes it up to their level is `mix phx.new`, so your argument is more on point than I initially thought. The LiveView issue tracker even provides a single-file version of a Phoenix app to re-create your issue in [0]. As you can see, it's not as simple as something like Flask, but not as complex as the generator does. Again, great article and happy to have you aboard ;) Also, if you want an auth solution without code generation, there is Pow [1] [0] https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples/blob/main... [1] https://github.com/p

Here's a great repo showcasing how to use it more like a quick scripting language. https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples

I've been a big fan of "Mix.install" since it was released! I believe this made me use Elixir instead of Ruby (my natural scripting language) more and more. I use it on a regular basis for my work on https://transport.data.gouv.fr/?locale=en (which is Elixir-based and open-source), as one can see at https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/tree/master/scripts. What I like the most is that it helps me start ideas, experiments & data analysis with their own set of dependencies (without much care of "will this impact the main application?"), store those experiments in the same repo at the main application, and maybe later promote some of those experiments to the main application source code. Concrete examples include: - data wrangling https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/blob/master/scripts..., https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/bl

Streaming ChatGPT via SSE in Elixir: https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples/pull/22#i...

love elixir. hate Mix. it's like using Maven or npm all over again. but even worse because it generates a lot of code. it creates disposable projects by design. No way to keep track of what to change when mix create outputs something different next year. and now things like https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples/blob/main... where is ecto even installed? download from where? so annoying this trend.

You could adapt this script and replace Postgrex with the ecto_sqlite3 adapter: https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples/blob/main... https://github.com/elixir-sqlite/ecto_sqlite3

A nice collection of Elixir scripts in the repository linked at the end of the article: https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples

See also https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples/blob/main... https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples/blob/main...

And with Mix.install/2 [0] you have access to the entire ecosystem. Here are a few examples: https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples [0]: https://hexdocs.pm/mix/1.12.3/Mix.html#install/2

If you want to play around with Ecto in isolation, you can (thanks to `Mix.install/2`) work in single-files, all containing the migrations, the schemas and configuration. Check-out this repository for an example (and other single-file examples): https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples/blob/main...