Sam and Ryan talk about the Ember 2018 Roadmap RFC and its focus on improving communication, completing in-progress work, and shipping Ember Octane. They also talk about how to verify complex addon behavior by using full-blown test apps and addons.

Topics:

• 0:00 – Test apps

  • Using full apps and addons in a subdirectory of an addon to facilitate testing complicated scenarios
  • Avoiding implementation details of the build pipeline in testing

• 12:14 – Ember Octane

  • The Ember 2018 Roadmap RFC
  • The concept of Ember Editions & the first edition, Ember Octane
  • Discussing the areas of focus from the RFC: better communication, shipping a ton of in-progress work, shipping Ember Octane
  • Discussing non-goals for the year

Links:

• Ember 2018 Roadmap RFC
• module-unification-packages.md#the-use-helper">Matthew Beale's MU RFC with the {{use}} helper