Frontend First

Tom Dale chats with Sam and Ryan about static analysis and compilers, upstreaming learnings from Glimmer, and what sort of size and speed improvements Ember.js will see in 2018.

Sam and Ryan talk about writing Babel plugins, components that can be transformed to plain HTML at compile-time, the differences between run-time and compile-time error messaging, and one way to make integration tests more reusable and domain-specific.

Sam and Ryan chat about Sebastian Markbage’s 2015 React Europe talk “DOM as a Second-Class Citizen” and how to deal with stale data in an Ember app.

Sam and Ryan chat about all the different ways you can make sure your app is working, some of their latest thoughts on functional CSS and presenter components in Ember, and how to test asynchronous errors in an acceptance test.

Sam and Ryan talk about a new Storefront API and why routes should declare their data needs, patterns that make your code more disposable, how Ember CLI Update simplifies the process of upgrading your Ember apps, and what teams should consider when choosing Ember for their next project.

Sam and Ryan talk about uploading images to S3, a new Storefront API for dealing with server errors in Ember Data, how to be a good community citizen when it comes to publishing consumable libraries given that our package managers now use lockfiles, and some ongoing work on the Ember CLI Addon Docs addon.

Sam and Ryan discuss community feedback on Ember Data's pain points, including asynchronous relationships, store forking and batch saving.

Sam and Ryan discuss using contextual components to clean up forms, a unique authentication scenario using cookies and JWT, the release blog post about Ember 3.0, and building animations with the Liquid Tether addon.

Special guest Luke Melia chats with Sam and Ryan about styleguides, CSS patterns, Ember Freestyle and more.

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Sam and Ryan chat about adding FastBoot to EmberMap's codebase, the difference between reusable and structural components, and the road to adding transactions to Ember Data.