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ecto queries in liveviews and controllers? discuss. 🍿 #ElixirLang #phoenix #code

Once in a while I get too clever and make a context function that lets me dynamically do stuff like preload assocs, select specific fields, etc. only to realize I've rewritten a tiny subset of Ecto, on top of Ecto, for no discernable benefit. So... Sure, if it's early or very specific to a liveview

Yeah I've done this. I avoid it now. Instead, just use Ecto elsewhere and lean more on consolidated but composable queries that can help wherever

Makes sense! I'm trying to explicitly define when/why I move things to a context, which I usually do based on intuition. What are the non-ecto things we typically need to do? So far I've got: - Authorization - Compute/combine data - Extra filtering - Pagination - Caching Any others?

I'd add mutating records -- I think querying (read-only) records is fine to have more spread-about, but changing those records probably ought to funneled through a context module for consistency.