Web Software with Matthew Beale
Yesterday morning at EmberCamp London I gave a talk on Glimmer , Ember.js and the relationship between the projects. As part of that talk I covered the latest news on Ember’s new application filesystem layout, a project we refer to as “module unification”. As of a few days ago, all the code needed to run a module unification app has landed in the various requisite repositories.…
Google’s Progressive Web Apps , or “PWA”, initiative specifies a set of requirements for modern web apps. In this post, we will take a new Ember app and transform it into a deployed PWA using service workers, server-side rendering via Fastboot, a web app manifest. The checklist for being PWA compliant is pretty extensive. The general idea, however, is to build apps that are:…
In the first half of 2017 I spent a lot of time preparing training materials for introductory and intermediate Ember.js courses. Now that 201 Created has given those training courses a few times I’d like to share how we approach teaching software in general and Ember.js in particular. Our team at 201 Created is composed of Ember contributors and community leaders. I’m also happy to say…
Interested in contributing to this effort? Give this post a read and join us in #st-module-unification on the Ember.js Community Slack . Last fall the Ember.js Module Unification RFC was merged after a final comment period. This RFC describes a change to how Ember applications are laid out on disk. The change is a big one, and has several motivations. Simplify the rules for file naming. Ember maps…
Say hello to Tom Zellman ( @tzellman ). Tom is CTO of the startup Digital Roots and runs his local Ember meetup in Ann Arbor, MI . Our survey team at 201 Created is happy to have him kick things off for 2017! We are back at it again this year, asking for your help in reviewing the Ember Community Survey draft! It’s been almost two years since we at 201 Created unveiled the results of the…
Today marks the release of Ember.js 2.10 , a stable release of Ember that includes a major redesign of Ember’s rendering engine. We call the new rendering engine “Glimmer 2”, as it began by building on the Glimmer 1 engine that shipped in Ember 1.13. The community is really excited about this release. For those who haven’t been keeping track of the play-by-play in…