

Lenient libraries, strict applications
Feb 6, 2019
01:02:08
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 they installed their dependencies due to a Mirage dependency changing. How can we reliably solve this for users?
- 35:05: Even if the tooling were better, there's a cultural problem where JS library authors don't consider the dependencies they bring in.
- 39:04: Lessons learned:
- apps should specify strict dependencies, libraries (including addons) should specify lenient dependencies
- apps should use lockfiles
- ember-dependency-lint & yarn resolutions are a good top-level escape hatch
- addons should use the
dependencies
key &ember-auto-import
for most of their dependencies
- 41:12: Ember Auto Import attempts some deduplication of dependencies. If you're writing an addon that has a dependency the host app cares a lot about, you can use
addPackagesToProject
to put the burden on host app. - 48:33: Would you build Ember CLI Tailwind the same if you were building it from scratch today?
- 54:55: Call for input. What are any best practices that we've missed? What did we get wrong?
- 59:20: Mirage blog using GitHub issues teaser
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