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