Frontend First

Topics include:

• 4:23 – Overview of Omnimodal's tech stack
• 6:38 – Omnimodal's mission: to help cities manage transportation demand
• 16:10 – How to ingest open transportation data and present it in rea…

Topics include:

• 3:12 – Getting Mirage 1.0 out the door, Mirage's roadmap, and how other communities treat domain modeling
• 15:18 – Seth Godin's blog post on tribal marketing
• 27:08 – Sustainability an…

Topics include:

• 0:00 – Letting your yes be yes, following through on your commitments, and paying attention to opportunity cost
• 6:40 – When Ember releases actually become LTS versions
• 9:13 – Why we …

Edward Faulkner joins Sam and Ryan to chat about his work on Embroider, a new three-stage architecture that will power the next generation of the Ember CLI ecosystem. They also talk about myriad othe…

Derrick Reimer joins Sam and Ryan to chat about building his new real-time chat product Level as an SPA using Elm, Phoenix and GraphQL. He covers domain modeling in Phoenix, his experience building h…

Sam and Ryan continue their discussion from the end of Episode 54 about how much we actually rely on our test suites versus how much implicit trust we place in semver. They also talk about some new E…

Chris Garrett joins Sam and Ryan to chat about what's coming to Ember in Octane, its first edition. Chris talks about how module unification, decorators, ES6 classes, named args, angle-bracket compon…

Topics include:

• 0:00 - Module unification

  • 1:20 - Component resolution
  • 5:45 - Why we don't use angle brackets

• 9:35 - SPAs should do everything a server app can do

  • 10:15 - Ember's Router
  • 11:00 -…

Topics include:

• 0:00 - Refreshing an Ember app when a new version is deployed

• 11:05 - When SPAs become too difficult

  • 14:50 - Building an SPA never got as quick as we'd hoped
  • 19:20 - You're now r…

Topics include:

• 01:15 - Implementing Mirage's AddonDocs blog with GitHub issues
  • 15:30 - Discussion forum vs. GitHub issues vs. blog comments
  • 18:18 - Moving the blog post source to a GitHub issue
  • 23…

Topics include:

• 04:01: Welcome to Node Dependency Hell.
• 14:00: How should the way we declare dependencies change if an addon is an implementation detail of another addon?
• 21:45: Can Ember CLI addres…

Topics include:

• 01:17: Mirage's new Addon Docs site
• 35:55: Ember Bind Helper
• 45:23: Why start with Acceptance Tests?

Links:

• EmberCLI Mirage
• Ember Bind Helper
• Sam Selikoff on Twitter
• Ryan Toronto o…

Topics include:

• 0:00 Housekeeping: Upgrades, trainings, and nested dropdowns
• 12:24: FastBoot bug 1: How HTML responses turn into DOM nodes
• 37:22: FastBoot bug 2: XMLHTTPRequest and redirects

Links:

Topics include:

• 03:16: Incidental complexity in SPA development
• 33:04: Dealing with undocumented but relied-upon behavior in OSS libraries

Links:

• Sam Selikoff on Twitter
• Ryan Toronto on Twitter

Topics include:

• 0:00: Making movies
• 05:08: Ryan Florence's tweet about Twitter App
• 18:08: Ember Data stores across browsers
• 32:58: Laravel's ascending option
• 35:51: YouTube transition to UI pattern
• …

Sam and Ryan discuss the wording behind the proposed "@tracked" syntax and how it shapes their understanding of Ember's new programming model. They also talk about 404 pages, data ownership, and thei…

Sam and Ryan discuss a new process for upgrading Ember apps and Sam's experience using it on EmberMap's codebase. They also talk about leadership in Open Source projects and lessons learned from Mira…

Sam and Ryan discuss the difficulty of working with a design system that doesn't have good escape hatches, how implementing HTML and CSS can be more complex and time-consuming than coding user behavi…

Sam and Ryan discuss getting Mirage and Ember to work in CodeSandbox, how FastBoot affects different approaches to rendering responsive content, and different ways an outside-in mindset can benefit p…

Sam and Ryan discuss new videos on async testing and declarative form validations. They also talk about why it's so hard to create good abstractions in Ember, or more generally the front-end landscap…