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We talk productivity, prioritizing your work, Backbone vs. Ember vs. React, and the communication requirements of outsourcing to a different time zone.

This episode was originally posted to real-world-ember.com on Feb 16, 2016. http://www.real-world-ember.com/6

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Origin Story
Originally learned Ember by joining Coderly
Their app was Cook Academy
Was really excited by the reusability
Was previously using jQuery/ExtJS on frontend, so huge upgrade

Javascript Package Size
We both skipped the Backbone generation
Backbone + Router.js- better than nothing!
File size of Ember has recently been reduced- a lot!
Svelte Builds: Eventually plan to make unique build that will only include parts of Ember that you’re using.
components make it really easy to separate and decompose your app

Separation of Concerns - Global Event Listening (for most cases)

“Ember Changed My Life"
“Life was never the same- there was before Ember and after Ember"
We write Ember whenever we can, although that’s not always all the time

turtle.ai
Working on building intelligent collaboration tools for teams
Problem: You have tasks and notifications all over the place. Information overwhelm.
Solution: Intelligent Inbox that automatically prioritizes your messages.
Currently working with a company for a year to solve their specific problems with the tech.

Productivity
“How quickly you can get to the desired outcome"
Not just how much stuff you can get done- the 80 hour/week worker building the wrong thing is not productive
The productivity solution is often not just engineering
Push back and make sure you know what people really want
Don’t just check off objectives- video game quest mentality doesn’t translate to real world
Chess can’t be played with a checklist
Ask “why” at every level
Code mistakes are easier to fix than higher-level mistakes like building the wrong product

Outsourcing
Started doing this at Coderly
South America is great because it’s the same time zone
Different time zones (like for Eastern Europe) means that unclear instructions waste an entire day
Clear requirements vital for outsourcing unless you’re in the chat room with them
Different cultures means more explicitness needed, because can’t fill in as many gaps with shared cultural knowledge (what do Chinese consumers want in an app? Probably different than the average American consumer)
Giving the developers more context allows them to make tradeoffs intelligently without checking back
Given the Big Why, and then lots of specific details
Ember has been great for outsourcing because of the shared conventions and file structure

React
New project was with React because that’s what the outsourced devs wanted to do
Not a terrible choice, although both of us prefer Ember
Their React app is fantastic and well put together, but shares very little with other React apps besides core
Having the best practices happen in React takes a lot of thought
Lack of standards has a cost- especially if developers come and go
Lots of time spent on choosing options vs writing code
React app quality will probably not stand up to being worked on by interns
May eventually rewrite in Ember once app gets bigger
Feedback for React: start designating things as the officially supported router/flux implementation/etc.

They’re hiring React developers- email [email protected]

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