Frontend First

By Sam Selikoff, Ryan Toronto

A podcast about modern UI development on the web. Hosted by Sam Selikoff and Ryan Toronto.... more

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The podcast currently has 201 episodes available.

Frontend First episodes:

August 15, 2018I am a lighthouse
Sam and Ryan chat (on new mics!) about Ryan's recent video on declarative keyboard events, changes to EmberMap's FastBoot architecture, and some of Ryan's recent work on FastBoot testing.
Topics:
0:00 – Ryan's video on declarative keyboard events; other declarative components that haven't been discovered
9:52 – Our evolving FastBoot architecture; which parts can be generalized; a high Lighthouse score; a long uncanny valley
29:11 – Sam's Mirage work, fixing bugs, approaching 1.0; Mirage as a tool to show off work; question for listeners, how do you show your work to your team?
34:51 – Ryan's work on FastBoot testing; how Mirage could work with FastBoot testing; the joy of ES6 classes and async/await in Node
Links:
Ryan's video on Declarative keyboard navigation: https://embermap.com/video/declarative-keyboard-navigation
Ryan's WIP FastBoot testing addon: https://github.com/embermap/ember-cli-fastboot-testing
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1h 3min
August 09, 2018Jonathan Jackson on FastBoot Rehydration and Codemods
Jon joins Sam and Ryan to talk about his recent work on rehydration in FastBoot and all the creative ways we can use Codemods to automate the routine parts of our jobs.
Topics:
0:00 – How Jon got into Ember at HashRocket
4:45 – Jon and Chase starting the EmberWeekend podcast
7:30 – Greenfield vs. brownfield projects at a consultancy
13:30 – Infrastructure complexities in Ember's ecosystem
18:07 – Jon's work on FastBoot rehydration
41:29 – Jon's work on Codemods & the new testing APIs
Links:
Jon on Twitter https://twitter.com/rondale_sc
Jon's podcast Ember Weekend https://emberweekend.com/episodes
Codemod CLI https://github.com/rwjblue/codemod-cli
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1h 28min
July 20, 2018Provide this!
Sam and Ryan chat about provider components in Ember, including the first renderless components they wrote, the different types of data components can provide, and the patterns of template composition that providers unlock. They also talk about the need for a unified API for styling Ember components.
Topics:
0:40 – Our first provider components
10:12 – Using providers to isolate the business logic for a form
27:35 – Patterns of composition in templates
34:35 – How to constrain more flexible interfaces
39:55 – APIs for styling components
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53min
July 13, 2018Jen Weber on imaginary bars
Jen talks to Sam and Ryan about her journey learning from and giving back to Ember, and how she keeps her community contributions sustainable by tying them back to personal goals and rewards.
Topics:
7:00 – Learning Ember at General Assembly
9:00 – How did you go from learner to contributor?
13:25 – Thoughts on Slack, Stack Overflow and Discourse
18:12 – What advice do you have for folks looking to contribute back to Ember?
24:66 – What are some things you'd like to see change about Ember?
30:39 – What personal projects are you working on right now?
35:10 – Why do you think someone should start using Ember today?
Links:
Jen on Twitter: @jwwweber(https://twitter.com/jwwweber)
The Ember Times: site
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38min
July 06, 2018Mirage, meet Node
Sam and Ryan talk about their initial attempts to get Mirage running in Node, the benefits and workflows that it will unlock, some different approaches for using code in both the browser and Node, and how we might test FastBoot apps in the future.
Topics:
4:28 – Getting Mirage to run in Express
21:58 – How to use addons like Mirage work in Node
42:53 – Testing FastBoot apps
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56min
June 30, 2018Let's be optimistic
Sam and Ryan talk about how to deal with building non-optimistic UIs using Ember and Ember Data, and how constrained visual design tools might help us build better UIs. They also answer some questions and talk about their current series on Functional CSS and Rendering tests.
Topics:
0:00 – What's new on EmberMap
8:06 – Options for non-optimistic UI in Ember Data
22:34 – Visual programming
Questions:
34:08 – What techniques do you have for authorization (not authentication)?
40:42 - How might you improve the developer experience of working with Ember Data?
50:14 – When can we get TypeScript in Mirage?
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54min
June 23, 2018A man can dream
Sam and Ryan talk about bringing the ideas of declarative rendering over to our data layers, how easy it is for data to become stale in SPAs, and more stories from their recent adventures in FastBoot land.
Topics:
0:00 – Declarative data fetching
18:50 – Stale data in SPAs
30:46 – FastBoot
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51min
June 15, 2018Wrapping libraries reponsibly
Sam and Ryan chat about what to do when a node module breaks in FastBoot, how to best wrap 3rd-party libraries in an Ember Addon, and how to test the filesystem. They also answer some listener questions.
Topics:
0:00 – Node modules in FastBoot
13:55 – Ember Addons that wrap 3rd-party libraries
19:07 – Testing the filesystem with Broccoli Test Helpers
Q&A:
32:11 – How can I speed up my Ember CLI build times?
38:31 – What do you think about the Angle Bracket Polyfill? Would you use it?
42:08 – I'm building an app and I need to build it with skeleton screens. Do I use a model hook with loading states, do I use Ember Concurrency tasks? What approach should I take?
46:44 – I'm building a table, and each row has a bunch of CRUD actions – edit, delete, view. What are the best UI patterns for this? A few I'm considering: a cog that you click that exposes a dropdown menu; icons in the row; buttons in the row.
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52min
June 07, 2018Bugs vs. features
Sam and Ryan chat about some ideas around caching in FastBoot, different ways of prioritizing work, and the difference between easy things and hard things in Ember.
Topics
0:00 – Caching & FastBoot
16:18 – Project process, workflow, bugs, features, and issue urgency
37:47 – Easy vs. hard things in Ember. Ember focusing on its strengths.
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1h 9min
May 29, 2018Toran Billups on Hot Reloading
Toran talks to Sam and Ryan about his project Ember CLI Hot Loader, which is an implementation of component-based hot module reloading for Ember apps.
Topics:
0:00 – Losing hot reloading when moving from handwritten CSS to functional css
2:16 – Why Toran wrote the Hot Reloader
4:45 – How the hot reloader leverages Ember CLI to reload components
8:31 – The need for hot reloading
14:56 – Are there situations where you don’t want to use the hot reloader?
19:05 – What’s the easiest way to try using the hot reloader today?
21:05 – Design vs. build mindset
22:30 – Engines aren’t currently supported
23:53 – How local state affects hot reloading
27:50 – Fast feedback is the primary motivation
34:05 – What are the next steps for Ember CLI Hot Reloader?
37:51 – What happens to a component’s transient state if it’s hot reloaded?
39:44 – How to help if you’re interested in hot reloading in Ember
Links:
Ember CLI Hot Loader
Toran’s side-by-side hot reloading demo
Bret Victor, Inventing on Principle
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42min

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