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Topics include: 04:01: Welcome to Node Dependency Hell. 14:00: How should the way we declare dependencies change if an addon is an implementation detail of another addon? 21:45: Can Ember CLI address these problems a layer above Yarn/npm? 23:25: Is JavaScript's fractured module ecosystem (CommonJS in node vs. ES6 modules in the frontend) contributing to the problem? 26:21: Someone's app broke when...

Topics include: 01:17: Mirage's new Addon Docs site 35:55: Ember Bind Helper 45:23: Why start with Acceptance Tests? Links: EmberCLI Mirage Ember Bind Helper Sam Selikoff on Twitter Ryan Toronto on Twitter

Topics include: 0:00 Housekeeping: Upgrades, trainings, and nested dropdowns 12:24: FastBoot bug 1: How HTML responses turn into DOM nodes 37:22: FastBoot bug 2: XMLHTTPRequest and redirects Links: Sam Selikoff on Twitter Ryan Toronto on Twitter

Topics include: 03:16: Incidental complexity in SPA development 33:04: Dealing with undocumented but relied-upon behavior in OSS libraries Links: Sam Selikoff on Twitter Ryan Toronto on Twitter

Topics include: 0:00: Making movies 05:08: Ryan Florence's tweet about Twitter App 18:08: Ember Data stores across browsers 32:58: Laravel's ascending option 35:51: YouTube transition to UI pattern 42:15: Ember's build environments Links: Sam's Star Wars movie Ryan Florence on Twitter's PWA

Sam and Ryan discuss the wording behind the proposed "@tracked" syntax and how it shapes their understanding of Ember's new programming model. They also talk about 404 pages, data ownership, and their upcoming EmberConf trainings. Topics include: 0:00: Tracked properties 13:27: 404 pages 26:38: Smart components 41:00: EmberConf trainings Links: Ember Conf Component Side Effects EmberData...

Sam and Ryan discuss a new process for upgrading Ember apps and Sam's experience using it on EmberMap's codebase. They also talk about leadership in Open Source projects and lessons learned from Mirage. Topics include: 04:45: What is a leader's job? 13:17: Step-by-Step: Upgrading EmberMap Links: Most leaders don't even know the game they are in ember-cli-update Dependabot

Sam and Ryan discuss the difficulty of working with a design system that doesn't have good escape hatches, how implementing HTML and CSS can be more complex and time-consuming than coding user behavior, and some creative approaches to ensuring JSON:API payloads represent canonical server-side state. Topics include: 04:15: Design systems and when they break down 22:38: The complexity of implementin...

Sam and Ryan discuss getting Mirage and Ember to work in CodeSandbox, how FastBoot affects different approaches to rendering responsive content, and different ways an outside-in mindset can benefit product teams and open-source software projects. Topics include: 2:50: Getting Ember and Mirage working on CodeSandbox. Coding in the browser. 10:30: How FastBoot affects the use of screen width service...

Sam and Ryan discuss new videos on async testing and declarative form validations. They also talk about why it's so hard to create good abstractions in Ember, or more generally the front-end landscape. They discuss constraints versus flexibility, and how the size of a library's problem space affects the likelihood of arriving at a good abstraction. Topics include: 01:14: Lessons learned from the A...

Sam and Ryan discuss an elegant solution to the async nested dropdown problem, a FastBoot success story regarding inlined CSS, pre-warming FastBoot's cache, and implementing a new design alongside an existing design language. Topics include: 01:11: Solving the nested dropdown by recursively currying an action 25:00: Inlined CSS and caching with FastBoot 40:22: Challenges implementing a new design...

Sam and Ryan chat about the challenges of testing custom asynchronous code. They also talk about React's new Hooks API, and discuss situations where hooks might be more composable than yields and contextual components. Topics include: 00:00 – Testing custom asynchronous code, like an animated bar chart 25:23 – React's new Hooks API Links: EmberMap Async testing series API docs for Ember's testing...

Sam and Ryan talk about the challenges of building nested dropdowns, whether a component reading data from its children is an anti-pattern, how angle-bracket syntax encourages new components, and whether “CSS best practices” exist. Topics include: 00:40 – Thinking through a nested drop-down navigation menu 35:15 – Building an component & angle-bracket syntax 45:00 – Layout UI primitives 46:35...

Sam and Ryan talk about their upcoming email course on Ember component patterns, wrapping up their EmberMap series on Functional CSS, refactoring some FastBoot code in Node, and how Mirage might be useful if it could run as a real server. Topics include: 0:30 - Email course in Ember Component Design 8:00 - EmberMap course on Functional CSS with Ember Do you have a preferred API for styled componen...

Sam and Ryan talk about lessons from Jason Fried's Q&A about scoping down product features, and how that applies to our open-source work. They also talk about inlining critical-path CSS with FastBoot. Topics include: Inlining CSS with FastBoot (0:08) Scoping down (14:26) Jason Fried's Q&A at Laracon Scoping down at work and in OSS How to handle OSS contributors who add scope How bugs indic...

Sam and Ryan chat about two new EmberMap series, Forms and Async testing, as well as Sam's keynote at EmberCamp and the best way to avoid product gaps in open-source software. They also answer some listener questions. Topics include: Forms (1:18) Splitting forms into containers and presenters Avoiding premature abstractions (7:03) Which components do you carry from project to project? Asynchronous...

Sam and Ryan continue their discussion about the role of product in an engineer's daily working life. They talk about what product gaps are, the symptoms of product gaps on tech teams, and what you can do about product gaps if you're on a team with no product manager. Topics: 2:05 – All about product More product responsibilities fall on engineers than ever before Coders can help surface valuable...

Sam and Ryan talk about the cost of using engineering as discovery, the consequences of embedding product decisions throughout the design and development phases of a project, and other lessons that software engineers can learn from product developers. They also chat about how they categorize Github issues. Topics: 0:00 – GitHub issue categorization The importance of issue triage Prioritizing bugs...

Sam and Ryan talk about the Ember 2018 Roadmap RFC and its focus on improving communication, completing in-progress work, and shipping Ember Octane. They also talk about how to verify complex addon behavior by using full-blown test apps and addons. Topics: 0:00 – Test apps Using full apps and addons in a subdirectory of an addon to facilitate testing complicated scenarios Avoiding implementation d...

Mel chats with Sam about getting into Ember, lessons learned from collaborating at work an in open source, and how to make it easier for JavaScript engineers to use better UI patterns. Topics: 0:00 – How Mel got into Ember at JPMorgan 4:45 – Feeling welcome in the Ember community 7:45 – Investing in Ember for the long-term 9:00 – Communicating vision, removing our ego, and empowering others to do...

Sam and Ryan chat (on new mics!) about Ryan's recent video on declarative keyboard events, changes to EmberMap's FastBoot architecture, and some of Ryan's recent work on FastBoot testing. Topics: 0:00 – Ryan's video on declarative keyboard events; other declarative components that haven't been discovered 9:52 – Our evolving FastBoot architecture; which parts can be generalized; a high Lighthouse s...

Jon joins Sam and Ryan to talk about his recent work on rehydration in FastBoot and all the creative ways we can use Codemods to automate the routine parts of our jobs. Topics: 0:00 – How Jon got into Ember at HashRocket 4:45 – Jon and Chase starting the EmberWeekend podcast 7:30 – Greenfield vs. brownfield projects at a consultancy 13:30 – Infrastructure complexities in Ember's ecosystem 18:07 –...

Sam and Ryan chat about provider components in Ember, including the first renderless components they wrote, the different types of data components can provide, and the patterns of template composition that providers unlock. They also talk about the need for a unified API for styling Ember components. Topics: 0:40 – Our first provider components 10:12 – Using providers to isolate the business logic...

Jen talks to Sam and Ryan about her journey learning from and giving back to Ember, and how she keeps her community contributions sustainable by tying them back to personal goals and rewards. Topics: 7:00 – Learning Ember at General Assembly 9:00 – How did you go from learner to contributor? 13:25 – Thoughts on Slack, Stack Overflow and Discourse 18:12 – What advice do you have for folks looking t...

Sam and Ryan talk about their initial attempts to get Mirage running in Node, the benefits and workflows that it will unlock, some different approaches for using code in both the browser and Node, and how we might test FastBoot apps in the future. Topics: 4:28 – Getting Mirage to run in Express 21:58 – How to use addons like Mirage work in Node 42:53 – Testing FastBoot apps