"Migrate Ember.js to React at scale, using Generative AI" by Jack Howard

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"Migrate Ember.js to React at scale, using Generative AI" by Jack Howard

Writing React is fun, right? You use your own best practices -- prop-naming, arrow functions, accessibility strategies -- that give you as a developer your own style. But automating that work is even better, like codemods. So, with AI improvements, models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini are getting better at doing that work with your own training data.

At Expel, we've been migrating the company's Ember.js app to React. We've been using custom codemods to speed up that process. In addition, we are validating thousands of lines of AI-generated code migrations. Security, accessibility, and testing best practices examples were incorporated into the AI prompt to ensure a reliable and efficient migration. Abstract Syntax Trees with Ember and React rules was also used to inform the process.

Jack Howard works as a principal software engineer at cybersecurity company Expel. He's been working on React for more than seven years for users from finance to firefighting. Jack lives in Lakeview, Chicago, near his favorite lakefront running path.

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Topic: React Chicago - October 2024
Time: Oct 30, 2024 05:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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