Robin Ward - co-founder, Discourse
Tue - 11:30-12:30 PM, Salon A
Frameworks
Browser Applications are all the rage these days. When we started Discourse, our next-generation open source forum software, we wanted a rich application that would last more than just a couple of years. To achieve this goal, we embraced the Ember.js framework and built a very heavy and powerful Javascript application. Along the way we learned quite a bit about the advantages of client side programming and enterprise design patterns. This talk is a walkthrough of the principles we learned and the challenges we faced along the way to client side nirvana.