Phoenix standardized on setup, but it does not include the compile command.
Not sure how useful build with compile is, if you run mix test instead of
mix compile, build won’t help it.

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 09:11 Andrea Leopardi <an.leopa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I personally like the idea of a mix build alias defined by mix new. The
> reason is that, while mix build is usually different for different
> projects, I like the idea of standardizing on the terminology "build".
>
> On 13 Jul 2023, at 21:21, Jonathan Arnett <jonarnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm definitely open to generating a default alias.
>
> On Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 3:17:14 PM UTC-4 christ...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I'd make the counter-argument: mix is a build *tool*, but not your
>> build; that's something you should define for your project.
>>
>> In pretty much all of my projects, I find myself writing a `mix build`
>> alias, as a high-level one-stop-shop command, but it looks very different
>> for each project—my Bakeware CLI application builds look very different
>> from my phoenix umbrella web application build with a custom
>> auto-asset-vendoring pipeline.
>>
>> Perhaps simply having `mix new` create a default alias for `mix build`
>> would work here? I'm very against prescribing what it means to build a
>> project, but this approach would encourage a common idiom across mix
>> projects as well as giving developers a jumping-off-point for when their
>> build's complexity grows.
>>
>> On Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 9:08:55 AM UTC-5 Jonathan Arnett wrote:
>>
>>> When I first clone an Elixir repository, usually the first thing I do is
>>> run `mix do deps.get, compile`.  It gets the job done, but it's a bit
>>> verbose.  Build tools in other languages (e.g. Rust's cargo, Haskell's
>>> stack, Gleam's gleam) have a "build" command that both pulls dependencies
>>>  *and* compiles the app.  The proposed "build" command for mix would
>>> functionally be the same running `mix do deps.get, compile`, just in a
>>> smaller package.
>>>
>>> I realize that I can make such an alias in my own projects, and I have,
>>> but I wonder if this would be useful for the larger Elixir community.
>>>
>>
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