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Ash Framework
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Ash Framework

by Rebecca Le, Zach Daniel
August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
294 pages
6h 59m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Why Ash?

Ash is built on three fundamental principles. These principles are rooted in the concept of declarative design and have arisen from direct encounters with the good, bad, and the ugly of software in the wild. They are:

  • Data > Code
  • Derive > Hand-write
  • What > How

To paraphrase a famous manifesto, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

No principle is absolute, and each has its own trade-offs, but together they can help us build rich, maintainable, and scalable applications. The “why” of Ash is rooted in the “why” of each of these core principles.

Data > Code

With Ash, we model (describe) our application components with resource modules, using code that compiles into predefined data structures. ...

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