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What's Coming In Ember In 2014
It looks like 2014 is going to be an exciting year for Ember. The blog post covers the discussions and results of the core team's face-to-face meeting last week. Highlights include tooling (build tools, modules, inspector, etc), HTMLBars, distributing components, emberdart, and innovative ways to open a beer. (emberjs.com)
Reading
Choosing a JavaScript MVC Framework
A comparison of the major MVC frameworks/libraries including Ember. (funnyant.com)
Facebook React vs. Ember
A comparison of creating components with Facebook's React and Ember through a series of examples. (instructure.github.io)
Changing the URL Type of Your Ember.js App
A look at how to make Ember use the History API instead of the hashchange event. (balinterdi.com)
Building an Ember.js App With Firebase
A re-post on the official Firebase blog of Balint Erdi's blog post on building Ember apps with the official Firebase library, EmberFire. (firebase.com)
ES6 modules and EmberJS: a taste of the future (part 2)
A follow up to part 1 which looked at ES6 modules, this post looks closer at how ES6 modules are used in Ember App Kit (EAK) as well as how EAK can simplify building Ember applications. (thau.me)
Ember Inspector on a Firefox near you
(...or Cross-Browser Add-ons for Fun or Profit). An interesting article where the Ember inspector takes centre stage in a detailed account of porting the Chrome version to Firefox. Learn not only how to write cross-browser extensions but how the Ember Inspector is built. (hacks.mozilla.org)
Watch & Listen
Code
``Em.computed`` with a plain old JavaScript Object
You don't have to use an Ember.Object to take advantage of computed properties. (gist.github.com)
Learn MoreEmber.Enumerable groupBy Computed Property
(discuss.emberjs.com)
Learn Moreoriginate-ember-addon
A loom origin for Ember add-ons. (github.com)
Learn MoreEmber VCRProxy
Record changes to an ObjectProxy and allow them to be stepped through or jumped to. (demo) (github.com)
Learn MoreIntroducing Fireplace
Fireplace is a Firebase library for Ember that is more akin to Ember Model or Ember Data than the official EmberFire. Also see the video from the December Ember London meetup above. (livsey.org)
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