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