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The elephant in the room
Episode 44

The elephant in the room

Sam and Ryan discuss the difficulty of working with a design system that doesn't have good escape hatches, how implementing HTML and CSS can be more complex and time-consuming than coding user behavior, and some creative approaches to ensuring JSON:API payloads represent canonical server-side state.

Frontend First · EmberMap

December 5, 20181h 4m

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Show Notes

Sam and Ryan discuss the difficulty of working with a design system that doesn't have good escape hatches, how implementing HTML and CSS can be more complex and time-consuming than coding user behavior, and some creative approaches to ensuring JSON:API payloads represent canonical server-side state.

Topics include:

  • 04:15: Design systems and when they break down
  • 22:38: The complexity of implementing designs in HTML and CSS
  • 34:38: JSON:API mutations. How incomplete response payloads can put your Ember app into an impossible state.

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