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Dan Gebhardt
March 14, 2018
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The Future of Data in Ember
Presented at EmberConf 2018.
Dan Gebhardt
March 14, 2018
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Transcript
the future of data in ember dan gebhardt @dgeb
the future of data in ember is __________________________
the future of data in ember is __________________________ web standards
the future of data in ember is __________________________ ahead of
web standards
the future of data in ember is __________________________ realtime
RESTful the future of data in ember is __________________________
the future of data in ember is __________________________ graph-based
operations the future of data in ember is __________________________
offline the future of data in ember is __________________________
what you need it to be the future of data
in ember is __________________________
ember needs to meet you where you are and help
you get where you want to be
Orbit Fetch + JSON Ember Data ember-apollo-client emberfire ember-redux
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requirement fetch and display data about some of your favorite
emberistas
server-side solution GET /api/v1/contacts GET /api/v1/contacts/:contact_id
client-side solution Fetch + JSON
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requirement work offline
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solution service workers
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$ ember install ember-service-worker $ ember install ember-service-worker-index $ ember
install ember-service-worker-asset-cache $ ember install ember-service-worker-cache-fallback
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requirement admin pages to edit emberistas (does not need to
work offline)
server-side solution GET /api/v2/contacts GET /api/v2/contacts/:contact_id POST /api/v2/contacts PATCH /api/v2/contacts/:contact_id
DELETE /api/v2/contacts/:contact_id
client-side solution Ember Data
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requirement everything needs to work offline
server-side solution GET /api/v2/contacts GET /api/v2/contacts/:contact_id POST /api/v2/contacts PATCH /api/v2/contacts/:contact_id
DELETE /api/v2/contacts/:contact_id
client-side solution Orbit
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Orbit Fetch + JSON Ember Data
how do we allow apps to evolve with the least
friction?
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Capabilities Complexity
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Config
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February 2013
February 2013
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ActiveModel Serializers (Rails) Ember Data + RestAdapter
ActiveModel Serializers (Rails) Ember Data + RestAdapter
May 2013 Initial draft May 2015 v1.0
ActiveModel Serializers (Rails) Ember Data + JSONAPIAdapter
JSONAPI Resources (Rails) Ember Data + JSONAPIAdapter
JSONAPI Resources (Rails) Orbit + JSONAPISource
fast_jsonapi (Ruby) Orbit + JSONAPISource
50+ server libs 14 languages 50+ client libs 14 languages
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composable, well-defined interfaces Document Structure Protocol Usage +
monolithic full-stack solution back end front end
back end front end single point of connection
back end front end new degree of freedom
back end front end interchangeable components
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HTTP compliant Basic CRUD
compound documents hypermedia links filtering sparse fieldsets etc.
v1.1 operations local identities profiles
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Ember Applications Ember Data
composability + extensibility
store adapter serializer
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tight coupling store model
store model addons
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store model addons RecordData interface
new interfaces unlock experimentation
unlocked by RecordData: POJO models schemaless models immutable data structures
static analysis
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store models basic CRUD
store
partial records embedded records changesets
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data access and synchronization
universal data layer
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u s e c a s e s
OFFLINE
CLIENT-FIRST DEVELOPMENT
PLUGGABLE SOURCES
DATA SYNCHRONIZATION
EDITING CONTEXTS
UNDO / REDO
OPTIMISTIC UI
b a s i c s
SOURCES
SYNCHRONIZES DATA BETWEEN SOURCES
FLOW CONTROL
s t o re
CHANGE TRACKING
IMMUTABLE DATA
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single source schema
multiple sources coordination strategies state buckets
custom sources new query ops new update ops
how does orbit fit with ember data?
store models basic CRUD
partial records embedded records changesets
???????????????
offline store forking optimistic UIs undo / redo
offline store forking optimistic UIs undo / redo
Orbit : Ember Data :: Glimmer : Ember
Orbit : Ember Dat :: Glim :
ember data can provide orbit's capabilites in a convention-driven package
orbit and its ecosystem can provide a laboratory for experimentation
"The Future"
GraphQL usage will continue to grow. Apollo will continue to
innovate.
REST+ solutions, like JSON:API 1.1, will also grow.
The operations primitive will be adopted across the stack.
Static analysis will improve runtime efficiency.
Immutable data structures will see increased internal usage.
Demand for offline PWAs will grow in order to compete
with native apps.
Orbit will see continued growth across the frontend and in
Node.
You will be able to incrementally adopt new capabilities in
your application as you need them.
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let's build great things together!