Frontend First

Topics include:

- 5:41 – Hasura, React, URQL + Formik = Nutrition app

- 44:51 – React to the Future by Jordan Walke

Links:

- [URQL](https://formidable.com/open-source/urql/)

- [Formik](https://jaredpalmer.com/formik)

- [Reach Dialog](https://reacttraining.com/reach-ui/dialog)

- [Dan Abramov's tweet on controlled/uncontrolled components](https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1200436185426006017)

- [React to the Future - Jordan Walke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fG_lyNuEAw)

- [Let's Program Like It's 1999 - Lee Byron](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG8WpLr6y_U)

- [Functional Programming in 40 Minutes - Russ Olsen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0if71HOyVjY)

- [Reason ML](https://reasonml.github.io)

Topics include:

• 0:00 – Livable code with Ember
• 3:09 – Speeding up Ember builds, and bugs with React rebuilds
• 7:09 – Undoing bad abstractions
• 11:30 – Building a mobile nav with React Spring + Reach Modal
• 18:48 – Documentation: Guides vs. How-tos vs. Examples
• 34:40 – Composability, and awareness of React's children vs. Ember's yield
• 38:30 – Structural vs. reusable components
• 54:54 – UI Testing
• 1:03:04 – Does advice for building good libraries transfer to buiding good apps?

Links:

• What nobody tells you about documentation, by Daniele Procida
• React Spring
• Using Composition in React to Avoid "Prop Drilling", by Michael Jackson
• Mirage and Cypress Quickstart

Topics include:

- 1:46 – Exploring the React paradigm

- 11:45 – How have your opinions on UI dev changed since starting Ember?

- 16:00 – How React's render functions and Ember's templates both solve the same problem: how to restrict the rendering code that users write

- 34:03 – JavaScript's multiparadigm approach: OOP + functional

- 40:13 - Hooks and the importance of lifecycle entanglement

- 46:15 – Do Hooks succeed in bringing the ideas of declarative rendering to our JavaScript code?

- 53:58 – The ES module spec, ES imports, and ES modules vs. CJS modules

- 1:04:55 – Are TypeScript users at risk of the same kinds of syntax collisions that CoffeeScript users once were?

- 1:10:10 – TypeScript now doesn't ship unstable features. (e.g. Optional chaining is stage 3)

- 1:15:35 – Yehuda's take on stage 0 through stage 4 ECMAScript proposals

- 1:23:39 – What's missing from UI development? And the difference between paradigms and abstractions.

- 1:31:00 – Ember's original sin was push-based reactivity. Pull-based is how programs work.

- 1:40:30 – Ember needs a new lifecycle entanglement primitive, that borrows concepts from both Hooks and Ember Concurrency tasks

- 1:57:07 – How do you feel about UI development in 2019?

Links:

- [No Silver Bullet](http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf), by Fred Books

- [React Hook Pitfalls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIRcX2X7EUk), by Kent C. Dodds

Topics include:

- 0:32 – React is hard!

- 7:55 – Should we be thinking about render cycles while writing React?

- 30:08 – How much objective coding advice is there?

- 39:23 – The Dark language + platform, and how concurrent languages can work against serverless architecture

- 57:57 – Deployless architecture

- 1:02:25 – Auth in Hasura

Links:

- [Dark Lang with Ellen Chisa and Paul Biggar](https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/10/21/dark-lang-with-ellen-chisa-and-paul-biggar/), on the Software Engineering Daily podcast

- [The Dark language + editor](https://darklang.com/)

Topics include:

- 0:57 – Wanting to learn more about GraphQL

- 14:41 – Constraints, theory and reality in GraphQL and REST APIs

- 21:54 – What matters when choosing technology?

- 35:06 – Can GraphQL queries and types replace traditional ORMs?

- 48:47 – Why did Rails and other technologies become popular? Does it matter?

- 1:00:48 – Is there objectively true advice in programming?

Links:

- [The Bike Shed # 215: Start With People](https://bikeshed.fm/episodes/215)

Topics include:

- 2:31 – Tailwind, PostCSS, and low-level vs. high-level tools

- 13:12 – Mirage JS and Cypress

- 13:55 – Ember 3.13 and Octane

- 15:28 – Ryan's experiencing upgrading EmberMap from 3.4 to 3.12

- 20:19 - ES Modules, and learning that imports are not code

- 42:12 – React and useEffect, and the difference between reads and writes vs. rendering and event handlers

- 1:00:50 – Object-oriented vs. functional programming in JavaScript

Links:

- [Ember 3.13 Release (Octane Preview)](https://blog.emberjs.com/2019/09/25/ember-3-13-released.html)

- [How to upgrade an Ember App or Addon](https://embermap.com/video/how-to-upgrade-an-ember-app-or-addon)

- [Rich Harris and Edward Faulkner Twitter thread about ES module design](https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1176509180951322624)

- [Twitter thread about ES module execution order](https://twitter.com/samselikoff/status/1182485014815993856)

- [Sam Selikoff on Twitter](https://twitter.com/samselikoff)

- [Ryan Toronto on Twitter](https://twitter.com/ryantotweets)

Topics include:

- 0:00 – Dealing with asynchrony and persistence in Vue

- 8:56 – Thoughts on Vue's APIs, and how they compare with React and Ember

- 22:20 – "Magic" in UI frameworks vs. server-side frameworks

- 27:17 – Build work in Mirage JS, and a new passthrough API

- 38:26 - How opinionated should project documentation be?

- 50:40 - Edward Faulkner's talk on compilers, abstractions, ES modules, and Embroider

Sponsors:

- [Next Release](https://www.nextrelease.io/ember/), mention EmberMap when you sign up for a trial and get 10% off

Links:

- [Mirage JS at ReactNYC S3:E8, Nov 7](https://www.meetup.com/ReactNYC/events/264933125/)

- [Mirage JS](https://miragejs.com)

- [Ember NYC September 2019 - Octane, Blockchain & Concurrency, Compiling Ember](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QClGEoHdQKk)

- [Sam Selikoff on Twitter](https://twitter.com/samselikoff)

- [Ryan Toronto on Twitter](https://twitter.com/ryantotweets)

Topics include:

- 0:39 – The "Weekend Warrior" technology adoption hypothesis

- 6:55 – Gatsby as a soft intro to GraphQL

- 8:55 – Building a GraphQL backend with Hasura

- 18:08 – GraphQL mutations

- 21:47 – Mocking out GraphQL in Mirage

- 45:03 – Gotchas when using backends as a service

- 49:47 – DX and user success vs. "correct" technology choices

Sponsors:

- [Next Release](https://www.nextrelease.io/ember/), mention EmberMap when you sign up for a trial and get 10% off

Links:

- [Hasura](https://hasura.io)

- [graphql-js](https://graphql.org/graphql-js/)

- [darklang](https://darklang.com)

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