Observing Ember Addons - EmberCamp London 2015

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1. Observations on Ember’s vibrant addon community October 29, 2015 - EmberCamp London @katiegengler
2. • ember-feature-flags • ember-try About me
3. Background What is an addon? ember-cli
4. Background June 19, 2014
5. Background 1920 addons
6. Background 1325 active addons
7. Background An addon is active if: A user can tell what it does
8. Background An addon is active if: It is intended to be shared
9. Background An addon is active if: It is not a “fill-murray” There are 292 fill-murrays
10. Background Addon User I use many addons in my apps. I’ve worked on 4 apps this year Addon Maintainer • ember-feature-flags • ember-try
11. User Users want addons.
12. User “Someone must have done this before and I bet they did it better than I would” - me
13. User An addon has already done the work
14. User An addon has already done the work better
15. User The community maintains addons
16. User Users want to find addons that do what they need
17. User Ways to find addons
18. User Search npm for “ember-addon”
19. User emberaddons.com
20. User EmberObserver.com
21. User How I choose an addon
22. User Functionality
23. User EmberObserver.com Score 1 - Sustainability 1 - Popularity 1 - Interest 2 - Maintained 2 - Being “active” 1 - Tests 1 - Documentation 1 - Running those tests
24. User Maintained
25. User Examine the API & code
26. User Look at the issues & PRs
27. User Try a likely candidate
28. User Didn’t find what you need?
29. Maintainer Maintainers are the lifeblood of the community
30. Maintainer Maintainers want to help
31. Maintainer Maintainers want .
32. Maintainer Why?
33. Maintainer Maintainers want their addons to be used
34. Maintainer Things I keep in mind as a maintainer*
35. Maintainer Testing!
36. Maintainer Dependencies
37. Maintainer Testing against varied dependencies (with ember-try)
38. Maintainer Testing against canary versions of dependencies
39. Maintainer Similar addons or general solutions
40. Maintainer Documentation
41. Maintainer Semver
42. Maintainer Have a 1.0!
43. Maintainer Beware of private APIs
44. Maintainer ….many addons are forced to use private APIs as part of experiments. These experiments are a crucial part of the evolution of the Ember ecosystem…. - Yehuda Katz Ember RFC #56 https://github. com/emberjs/rfcs/pull/56
45. Maintainer Be quiet
46. Maintainer Be aware of deprecations
47. Maintainer Community contributions
48. Maintainer That your addon might have (or need) its own ecosystem
49. Maintainer package.json
50. Observer Some observations
51. Observer Score distribution
52. Observer The 38 with score of 10 is a relatively stable set
53. Observer Not every addon with a score of 10 is the same, though
54. Observer Similar addons have merged
55. Observer New categories are emerging
56. Observer Amazing addons are created every day
57. Recap The community is amazing
58. Thanks Thanks! Questions? Credits First Background - https://www.flickr.com/photos/frigus/18667865034 Second Background - https://www.flickr.com/photos/adrian_kingsley-hughes/16484499732 Third Background - https://www.flickr.com/photos/tom_hall_nz/17004434418/ Fourth Background - https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewjking87/6814860862/