Ember Considered Harmful

This was a talk I gave at the DublinJS/EmberJSDublin meetup. In this talk I try to clear up some preconceptions that people may have about Ember.

http://www.meetup.com/DublinJS/events/223293685/

Transcript

1. Ember considered harmful Pat O’Callaghan == littleglitch.io == @patocallaghan
2. It’s a monolith
3. Components Build Tools Router Templates Deployment Continuous Integration Asset Fingerprinting Proper URL Support Data Store Testing Unit Integration Automatic Bindings Models
5. It’s too opinionated…
6. Your app is not a beautiful snowflake
8. But I don’t use Rails…
9. Ember Data
10. fnd.io
11. It’s slow…
13. HTMLBars FastBoot
14. But everyone else is using Framework X…
17. But Framework X was built by Corporation Y…
20. The APIs constantly break
22. “Stability Without Stagnation”
23. So to wrap… • Productive out of the box • Opinionated so less bike-shedding • Performance improvements en route • Truly open source
24. Thanks! Questions?
25. Appendix • Ember CLI - http://www.ember-cli.com • Ember Inspector - http://guides.emberjs.com/v1.12.0/ember-inspector/installation/ • Ember Data - http://emberjs.com/blog/2015/06/18/ember-data-1-13-released.html • Building fnd.io http://confreaks.tv/videos/emberconf2014-modeling-the-app-store-and-itunes-with-ember-data • Hijacking Hacker News - http://confreaks.tv/videos/emberconf2015-hijacking-hackers-news-with-ember-js • Ryan Florence’s React.js Conf Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5e7kWSHWTg • HTMLBars - http://talks.erikbryn.com/htmlbars/ • Glimmer - https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/pull/10501#issue-58476466 • FastBoot - http://emberjs.com/blog/2014/12/22/inside-fastboot-the-road-to-server-side-rendering.html • Ember in the Real World by Brandon Hays - http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/event/125/Ember%20in%20the%20Real%20World%20Presentation.pdf • An Antidote to your Hype Fatigue by Godfrey Chan - http://brewhouse.io/blog/2015/05/13/emberjs-an-antidote-to-your-hype-fatigue.html • Yehudi Katz on Ember approach to OSS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqXU4o24Hkg • Ember RFCs - https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs • 2.0 RFC - https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/blob/master/text/0015-the-road-to-ember-2-0.md • IE Support RFC - https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/blob/master/text/0045-internet-explorer.md • Ember Release Cycle improvements - https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/blob/two-dot-x-improvements/active/0000-improved-release-cycle.md