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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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0:00 – GitHub issue categorization

7:53 – Managing product

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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.

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0:00 – Test apps

12:14 – Ember Octane

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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.

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