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/