Is it possible to program backend with pure elixir (direct SQL in BD) without frameworks? What are the challenges or problems?

Hi Megatomic! Welcome to the forum! There’s no need for any specific library or framework to make a backend in Elixir, it just means that you have to make more decisions about what conventions and patterns to employ, and you may need to implement some functionality that the frameworks might otherwi…

Sure, as another example, I use Phoenix for routing etc, but not ecto: phoenix + postgrex.

I intend to use PostgreSQL tnks

Postgres is a RDBMS, relational database management system. I’ve not yet heard someone classifying it as a BD. Could you therefore elaborate on that term?

Sorry: a failed act at writing BD = DB BD in portuguese, DB in english (DataBase)

Hi @Megatomix , I don’t see any blocks that would keep you from interacting directly with a database, without using a library. I also don’t see a good reason to not use a library such as Ecto, tho. Why would you like to do such a thing? By the way, the answer for your question is YES. It’s complete…

[image] Megatomix: Is it possible to program backend with pure elixir (direct SQL in BD) without frameworks? Yes. [image] Megatomix: What are the challenges or problems? Less pleasant API and that will probably be it.

[image] hauleth: Less pleasant API and that will probably be it. And crying yourself to sleep because you don’t have proper queries, joins and aggregations which you will inevitably need no later than two weeks in the project. :003:

[image] joelwallis: I also don’t see a good reason to not use a library such as Ecto, tho. Why would you like to do such a thing? SQL query builders such as Ecto are just one approach to querying a database, other options are available, and in some other ecosystems these options more popular. …

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Backend with pure elixir (direct SQL in DataBase) without frameworks possible?

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