Robert Jackson and Tom Dale on Ember at LinkedIn

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