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How I learned to love Ember
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Ju Liu
March 30, 2016
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How I learned to <3 Ember
HI!
I'm Ju !
You can find me as @arkh4m
I'm Italian !
MAMMA BUTTA LA PASTA
I live in London !
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I work at AlphaSights We're in London and New York
And we're huuuge Ruby & Ember fans
I'm addicted to rock climbing!
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BUSINESS TIME
I'm here to tell a story
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....
I was a PhD student working on packet filtering in
high speed networks
Friend: "Hey, wanna join our Rails shop?"
Me: "OK"
PROBLEM
I knew nothing about web development.
So I started studying Ruby
But that wasn't enough, so I studied Rails
But that wasn't enough, so I studied OOP
But that wasn't enough, so I studied TDD
And I was happy
I was really enjoying myself doing what every backend Ruby
developer loves to do
BUT THEN CAME THE JAVASCRIPT
So I learned jQuery
Then I learned KnockoutJS
Then I learned BackboneJS
Then I learned MarionetteJS
Then I learned BatmanJS
Then I learned AngularJS
But I still wasn't happy
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A9. The most advanced chip ever The most vivid Retina
display ever TouchID faster and better than ever 3D Touch lets you do more than ever The most powerful 4-inch phone ever IOS 9 is smarter and more essential than ever The 27-inch iMac is faster and more powerful than ever
When everything is revolutionary, probably nothing really is — Albert
Einstein
I was pretty deep into The Pit of JavaScript Disillusionment
But I had my Ruby, my OOP and my TDD
So everything was good!
But one day..
We're going to rebuild this Rails app in Ember!
Initially I wasn't really excited
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But then I start poking around...
"This looks nice and familiar..."
15 minutes later...
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Even though I thought I knew Rails and JS, Ember
looked like something completely different
And I wasn't a huge fan because it was doing
too many things
KISS
Keep It Simple, Stupid
Simple is better than complex — The Zen of Python
Write programs that do one thing and do it well
— Doug McIlroy
Why do you have to go and make things so
complicated? — Avril Lavigne
2 years later...
Now I love Ember :)
I can do everything!
So what changed?
The Gmail Test
I have to rebuild Gmail. How would I do it?
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I couldn't figure out a way to do it by
keeping it simple...
Simple is better than complex — The Zen of Python
But complex is better than complicated — The Zen of
Python
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An ambitious application solves a real problem
And as we know, reality is full of complexity
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not
simpler — Albert Einstein
So I stopped using 'simplicity' as an excuse :)
Also, I found out why I wasn't enjoying myself in
JS
It wasn't the syntax
It wasn't handling state
It wasn't handling async
But the revolution at any cost mindset
HYPE FATIGUE
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Second System Syndrome
We need to rebuild this from scratch
It's going to be easier, faster, more expressive
But it's not gonna be backwards compatible
→ Perl 5 -> Perl 6
→ Python 2 -> Python 3
→ Angular 1 -> Angular 2
Intelligent design
I have the perfect plan, now let's build it
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Natura non facit saltus — Linnaeus, 1751
Stability Without Stagnation
Eventually all the good ideas will end up in Ember
— wycats
When I was learning Ember, I was learning a piece
of software.
But the truth is, there are many pieces of software
around.
This is my framework. There are many like it, but
this one is mine. — Full Metal Jacket
But what I learned to love is much more than
a frame of work
It's a frame of mind
It's having a truly open source process
It's valuing backwards compatibility
It's building inclusive communities
It's embracing continuous mutation over short lived revolutions
Don't be a JS Creationist Learn to love Ember!
Thank you! ! @arkh4m engineering.alphasights.com