Hear about how we are using recast with Ember CLI at British Gas to only provide our web applications with the ember data models they need from a shared addon that contains all our models. You will also learn about abstract syntax trees and how Ember’s commitment to backward compatibility has influenced the way we introduce changes to our private shared addons.

1. Let’s shake some
trees!

2. Commons
Models Services Components Helpers

3. “Inheritance is pure evil”

5. We need to shake trees!
“I’ll find out what you need”
“You tell me what you need”

7. The tools we need
Broccoli funnel
Recast

8. First pass
Included: [‘model1’]
Model1
+
Model2
+
Model3

9. Recast
Second pass
Included: [‘model1’, ‘model2’]
Model1
+
Model2

10. Recast
.parse()
Modify
Source
.print()
AST

11. Abstract Syntax Trees
“In computer science, an abstract syntax tree (AST), or just syntax
tree, is a tree representation of the abstract syntactic structure of
source code written in a programming language.”
Demo