Frontend First
A podcast about modern UI development on the web. Hosted by Sam Selikoff and Ryan Toronto.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 201
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2024
Test before commit
Sam and Ryan chat about Ember at Microconf, two-way bindings, and TDD vs. "Test before commit".
Topics:
- 0:00 – When direct state mutations make sense
- 8:15 – Ember at MicroConf & how other communitie…
Adam Wathan on Tailwind CSS
Adam joins Sam and Ryan to talk about coupling in HTML and CSS, different approaches to styling applications, and his popular open-source library Tailwind CSS.
Topics covered:
- 0:00 – Adam's motivati…
Robert Jackson and Tom Dale on Ember at LinkedIn
Robert and Tom join Sam and Ryan to chat about how LinkedIn uses Ember, when teams should use Engines, build optimizations that are coming to Ember CLI and more.
Topics:
0:00 – Engineering challenges…
Concretions and abstractions
Sam and Ryan chat about Tailwind and compilers (again), Ryan's EmberJS homepage teardown, and releasing with git tags. They also answer some listener questions.
Topics covered:
- 0:00 – Compilers, Tai…
Sketch Prototyping and Amazon Workspaces
Sam and Ryan chat about Sketch’s new Prototyping feature, using Amazon Workspaces to develop Ember apps in a Windows environment on a Mac, and how to use git tag to ensure your project’s dependencies…
Alex Matchneer on Routing Patterns
Alex Matchneer chats with Sam and Ryan about challenging routing patterns in Ember, his involvement with the Ember community, and what Ember’s next router might look like.
Topics covered:
- Routing pa…
Steelman vs. strawman
Sam and Ryan talk about their new series, “Declarative rendering,” and why we should use steelman arguments instead of strawman arguments when talking about technology. They also answer some listener…
Making the impossible, impossible
Sam and Ryan talk about
- Functional CSS training at EmberConf
- Some ideas for hiding styling implementation details from templates
- A new setup for multiple staging environments
- An idea from data model…
Oli Griffiths on the Benefits of Static Typing and How Broccoli Works
Oli Griffiths joins Sam and Ryan to talk about his experience using typed languages, what kinds of benefits static could bring to the Ember developer experience, and his upcoming EmberConf training o…
JSONAPI Operations, Caching in FastBoot, and Ember's Strengths
Sam and Ryan talk about the upcoming Operations addition to the JSON:API spec, adding FastBoot support to Storefront, how to think about caching in Fastboot, and a thought experiment around how Ember…
Tom Dale on Static Analysis, Upstreaming Glimmer, and Ember in 2018
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.
Babel Plugins, Compile-time Components, and Extending Integration Tests
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…
Avoiding Imperative APIs and Expired Data
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.
- Sebastian Markbage's talk DOM as a Second-Class C…
Breaking Production, Functional CSS and UI Components, and Testing Async Errors
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 e…
Declarative Data Fetching, Disposable Code, Easier Upgrades, and the Upfront Cost of Ember
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 you…
Photo Uploads, Server Errors in Ember Data, NPM Dependencies and Ember CLI Addon Docs
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 …
Async Relationships, Store Forking, and Batch Saving in Ember Data
Sam and Ryan discuss community feedback on Ember Data's pain points, including asynchronous relationships, store forking and batch saving.
Forms, Authentication, Ember 3.0, and Liquid Tether
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 Liq…
Luke Melia on Styleguides
Special guest Luke Melia chats with Sam and Ryan about styleguides, CSS patterns, Ember Freestyle and more.
Links from the episode:
- Luke Melia on Twitter
- Suit CSS
- Ember Freestyle
- Ember Prop Types
- Ya…
FastBoot, Structural Components and Ember Data Transactions
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.