Robert Jackson and Tom Dale on Ember at LinkedIn

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English - May 03, 2018 20:44 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
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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 of scale at LinkedIn

6:00 – Engines at LinkedIn

8:40 – When should teams use Engines?

15:25 – What are some of the downsides of Engines?

17:38 – Build-time versus AOT library transpilation

21:47 – How just-in-time compilation relates to code-splitting and importing node modules

29:50 – Ember’s philosophy on bringing new JS features to years-old apps

32:55 – How can the community be most helpful when contributing to Ember?

41:32 – Analytics and performance tracking at LinkedIn

46:07 – What are your thoughts on Vue.js? (Question from jamiewhite)

52:18 – How can we help improve the developer experience of using Handlebars templates (autocomplete, error correction, template linting, etc.)?

1:02:40 – Moving questions from Slack to the Discussion forum