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It's good to see more people developing in Elixir. But having said that, I'm against server-side forms. I feel client side frameworks like vue.js completely alleviates the need for server-side form objects and does a lot more. Server-side forms at times can be a real pita to work with.

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You still need server side validation so a form object with validators is still useful.

server side validation (which is indeed requried) != forms. also, Ecto does really good job with changesets, including hard-to-do-right pieces like "uniqueness"

IMHO, reusable server side validation == forms without widgets (and widgets are nice to have if one feels that JS is unnecessarily complicating what could be a simple static HTML form).

Or I'm missing something?

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