Introduction To Ember.js

2014-07-08 by Jason Draper (Meetup)

What is Ember?

• A framework for building ambitious web applications
• Opinionated - convention over configuration
• Most (all?) web apps have the same problems
• Separation of logic (view) from template
• Templates are autoloaded based on name
• DOM manipulation belongs in the view
• Ember console

Controllers

• Decorators for the model
• Computed properties

Components

• Reusable JS/HTML
• Similar to Web Components, but without CSS

Downsides

• Very new - not as popular as Angular
• HTMLBars cannot come soon enough
  • Replacement for Handlebars
• Ember Data is still beta

Learn More

• Ember Guides
• Ember Weekly

• emberjs on irc.freenode.net