This week the Frontside nerds are joined by "Mr. Router" himself, Alex Matchneer.

We discuss the benefits & pain of routing in client-side applications, using the Ember router without Ember, how Alex got into working on Ember core, and some OSS projects to keep an eye on.

• Alex Matchneer @machty http://alexmatchneer.com/
• Router.js https://github.com/tildeio/router.js/
• React.js http://facebook.github.io/react/
• React-Nested-Router https://github.com/rpflorence/react-nested-router
• Pretender.js https://github.com/trek/pretender
• VCR (Rails) https://www.relishapp.com/vcr/vcr/docs
• Stefan Penner https://github.com/stefanpenner