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

In my first coding gigs, I experienced first-hand the impact of poorly organized code. SQL queries were scattered throughout template code, everything was mutable, and debugging was painfully tedious. I scoffed and rolled my eyes.

Later, I followed the patterns laid out by the Phoenix code generators. Where contexts contained CRUD code, controllers and LiveViews called those context functions. One of the biggest pain points that has grown out of this pattern, though, is query code - specifically *reading* data from a Repo.

While I can imagine some applications that have identical queries used across multiple call sites, this hasn't been my experience. Instead, I've seen hastily added functions in contexts which serve a single call site elsewhere in the codebase. These functions often have hilariously long names.