The Ember Addon Community
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Ember addons number 2,632 since 2014 and filtering for description repo updates and non-deprecation yields about 1,497 active addons, backed by 2,288 contributors. Evaluation uses concrete signals: README demos, tests, CI, recent commits and releases, and an Ember Observer score. Tools and outcomes include ember-try for matrix testing, nightly canary runs, and a plan to fastboot smoke-test the top 100 addons to verify compatibility.
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:12Ember's amazing addon community
- 0:56What is an addon?
- 1:342632 addons
- 1:57A user can tell what it does
- 3:20It is not a "fill-murray"
- 3:561497 active addons
- 4:26We want addons.
- 5:38The community maintains addons
- 6:17Ways to find addons
- 6:59How I choose addons
- 7:18Find addons that claim to do what I need
- 7:42Filter by score
- 9:20Eliminate unmaintained addons
- 9:49Examine the API & code
- 10:29Try a likely candidate
- 10:39Didn't find what you need?
- 10:50Maintainers are the lifeblood of the community
- 12:15Testing!
- 13:26Testing against canary versions of dependencies
- 14:48Beware of private APIs
- 15:10many 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
- 15:45Be quiet
- 16:14Be aware of deprecations
- 16:42Community contributions
- 18:00package.json
- 18:19Some observations
- 18:31Experiments & Proof-of- concepts
- 19:23Polyfills
- 19:59Running ember-try against sets of addons
- 20:42Amazing addons are created every day
- 21:24The community is amazing
