Topics include:

• Building an API without writing any controller code
• Thinking of your API like a database as much as possible
• Modeling everything on the server as a resource, including things like S3 upload signatures
• Using tools like Firebase to avoid writing an API entirely

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio and install Rollbar in your app to receive a $100 gift card for Open Collective
• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free

Links:

• EmberMap, Sam's Ember.js training site
• JSON:API, the API spec Sam uses to build his SPA backends
• JSONAPI::Resources, the Rails gem for declaratively building a JSON:API compliant API
• Firebase
• Vuex
• Apollo GraphQL