[h0l0cube]

> the amount of boilerplate code which is generated is too high.

Relative to what? From my experience other MVC web frameworks (e.g., Django, .NET, Laravel) have the usual fragmented directory structure typical of MVC + ORM. Unless you're comparing to other LiveView frameworks? In which case, Phoenix is still the OG, and more mature and capable vs other platforms.

[blueblahvlah]

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=34193789&goto=item%3Fi...

[fud101]

it takes like 6 lines of code to have a working flask endpoint to deploy a quick and dirty API. About a billion files for phoenix. I hate that too.

[josevalim]

Phoenix by definition assumes your projects will take longer than an afternoon. :)

If you want a quick and dirty API, using Plug directly may be an option: https://gist.github.com/josevalim/fbfc669aa6087c5b79402b399d...

[fud101]

It comes down to whether you want to maintain a bunch of auto generated files which will never be automatically updated. I would rather maintain only the lines of code I write not ones that were generated by some tool and then immediately became legacy.

[dugmartin]

You beat me to the submit button by a minute.

[Existenceblinks]

I understand that generator is for education purpose. New comers might find it's cumbersome to get start if generators are absent. However, I think it should be just some guide docs. Generated context can mislead the concept of how to use the context itself. It's easy to quickly write a dirty API in phoenix, but practice guides lead to ceremony.

[dugmartin]

To be fair you could use Plug and Plug.Router directly and get almost the same line count as a flask app.

https://hexdocs.pm/plug/Plug.Router.html