ember.js

Historically I've used Ember Data which gives you a model instance which you can set arbitrary values on using the set method. That as I've been working with more POJO data

Just last week Alex LaFroscia released a new addon called Ember Context and I wanted to share some patterns that I've used in the past that this addon changes. The Problem Sometimes

Most Ember developers are familiar with Ember Data and JSON:API, which means that GraphQL and Apollo are not nearly as wide spread in the Ember community. This past year I had the

This week I fixed a "feature" that I had done half-way, yes I'm not perfect! The feature was to show a loading state for video uploads/recording, and it was more

While I love the ability to query the backend very specifically and build up complex data with GraphQL and Apollo, I still miss a few things from the good-old JSON API and

A few tips as you transition your SASS, LESS, PostCSS or plain CSS to using CSS Modules, and specifically for Ember (not sure what the differences are). Use local-class Instead of class

January is usually a time for goals, but the problem with those is that they are accomplished, and that's the end. A trellis is a structure that helps guide the growth of

I've heard this so many times on Twitter, that someone doesn't want to try out Ember because of a bad experience with Handlebars.js. Let me tell you something, the handlebars

Sometimes components are too high-level, and you need to get at a specific DOM element, either for scrollTo or focus, in these situations Ember provides a lower-level primitive called an element-

Ember Octane gives us template-only components by default, which basically means you have a zero-boilerplate way to create a component. This component is 100% declarative and has the same characteristics as

With Ember Octane now released it's a good time to start looking at upgrading that app. One of the issues we faced at Crash with upgrading is that Ember Component CSS doesn'

One of the reasons that Ember.js is so powerful of a framework is because of its Router, and ultimately its bet on the web and the fact that the URL is important.

In my last post I mentioned how nested routes don't make sense sometimes, which means that they do have their uses at other times, which I want to cover here. I think

Ember's router is powerful and a bit unique, in that it has a nested structure for the routes which build up the URL a user would see in the browser. Given it'

This week I've been coding up some billing workflows and it has been a while since I've done that, so naturally I underestimated the amount of work that is required for

Many people have written blog posts for #EmberJS2019 about where they want to see Ember headed in the next year or so. I'll add only one item of my own, since there

Having worked on a few side-projects, and not having shipped any, I decided to analyze why that is and how to ship my next side-project. The problem for me is that

I decided to write down some of my favorite Ember.js addons that I have used in the past. There are a handful of addons marked with [bleeding edge], meaning they are either

This post is in response to the Call for Blog Posts [https://emberjs.com/blog/2018/05/02/ember-2018-roadmap-call-for-posts.html] put out there by the core team. Have

Is this what I'm looking for? You have at least one engine and you want to share components from your parent app without having an in-repo-addon to share the common

I hear many people asking how they can compose components, and since the Ember Guides [http://guides.emberjs.com/] don't help us in that respect, I wrote my own guide as a

I've been using Ember.js since just before the first RC, and since then I've been wanting a sane project structure that just works. This was a struggle, since Ember told