Episode 69
You gotta feel the pain
Sam and Ryan talk about APIs that empower developers, even if it means giving them enough freedom to make mistakes. They also talk about building a component with dynamic children in both Ember and React.
July 31, 20191h 34m
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Show Notes
Topics include:
- 5:26 – Bringing Mirage to a wider JavaScript audience
- 17:14 – Setting up tests in Gatsby, and why wiring up boilerplate code is not always bad
- 28:56 – React's children API, MDX, and template imports in Ember
- 39:17 – How extracting things in React feels compared to extracting things in Ember
- 42:30 – React's children, and constraints vs. flexibility
- 1:05:52 – API design, and letting someone feel the pain rather than telling them they can't do something
- 1:23:16 - Dynamic vs. static children
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