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Frontend First

Can small libraries be conventional?

Oct 3, 2018
01:05:53

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 testing (14:47)
  • Testing animations
  • Sam's keynote at EmberCamp on Product gaps (19:04)
  • Product gaps at companies vs. in OSS
  • Are small packages and convention over configuration at odds with each other?
  • Convention over configuration that decomposes well
  • The risk of bad high-level abstractions in OSS
  • How to "finish" an OSS project

Questions:

  • What's the state of TypeScript support in Ember? (48:15)
  • When are observers actually appropriate to use? (54:57)
  • Any tips on refactoring async relationships? (59:34)

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