Ash Framework

Spicing Up the Artist Catalog

With this one new relationship, we can do some pretty neat things using ideas and concepts we’ve already learned. Let’s make the artist catalog a bit more interesting!

Showing the Follow Status for Each Artist

It’s a pain to have to click through to the artist profile to see if we follow them or not, so let’s add a little “following” icon to artists in the catalog if the logged-in user follows them.

In TunezWeb.Artists.IndexLive, we load the artists to display with the Tunez.Music.search_artists function. This has all of its load statements tucked away on the code interface function in case we want to reuse the whole search. To add loading the followed_by_me calculation for each artist, edit the options in the ...