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ember.js

Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications

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What it is

Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

My personal experience is the opposite. I tried Ember first. Got excited replicating the sample blog app, but got stuck trying a simple task: show the most recent post by…

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year39 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-12-12 20:14:02 UTC to 2023-09-05 00:57:15 UTC.

0510152011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 4 submissions, 12 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 3 submissions, 3 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 3 submissions, 3 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16412
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC633
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC633
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

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Ember.js is a JavaScript framework that greatly reduces the time, effort and resources needed to build any web application. It is focused on making you, the developer, as productive as possible by doing all the common, repetitive, yet essential, tasks involved in most web development projects. With Ember, you get all of these things: A Welcoming Community - Get the help you need, when you need it. An Enduring Foundation for your Apps - There are apps that used the first version of Ember almost a decade ago, and successfully still use Ember today. Reliability & Security - With regular LTS Releases and 30 weeks of security fixes, you can rely on Ember.js to care about the stability and security of your app. Modern JavaScript - Use modern JavaScript features that you're already familiar with like classes, decorators and generators. Documentation - Rely on top-notch documentation for each Ember version and a team that is focused on the documentation and learning experience. HTML-first Components - Start with valid, semantic HTML in your components, and layer in the functionality that you need, as you need it. Routing - Ember routes respect URLs while layering in extra functionality like rendering templates, loading data models, handling actions, and conditionally redirecting. Data Layer - Ember Data is a powerful data management tool that comes with Ember apps by default. Want to use something else? We support that, too! Flexibility Use any backend stack with your Ember apps, thanks to the flexibility of adapters and serializers. Autotracking - Ember's reactivity model makes it easier to decide what to automatically update, and when. Zero Config Apps - With strong defaults, you may never need to configure anything in your app, but the options are there if you need it! Quality Addon Ecosystem - high-quality, rated addons with the ability to search by source code. Many require no additional configuration, making it easier than ever to supercharge your apps. Find out more: Website Guides API Community Blog Builds Contributions See CONTRIBUTING.md Cross-browser testing provided by Browserstack.
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What Hacker News says

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evilduck·Sep 5, 2023
Ember and Rails were both extremely popular at one time. They both went from web development darlings to being legacy products to support. There are still fanatics for both, but there are VB6 fanatics to this day too. Fanatics don't mean anything. If you're going to call me a liar though you need to do better. What has Ember done but continually play catch up for years and years on end? Here, go look yourself: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/releases How many years do you have to scroll back to find anything that influenced anything outside of Ember? The last influential ideas might have been EmberObject to fill gaps in the Javascript language before ES6 became a thing, or the idea of Ember Data as a front end opinionated ORM, though that has mixed results depending on your backend team's buy in. > Someone should tell Apple, HashiCorp
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, DigitalOcean and Microsoft they're not cool anymore releasing new stuff in Ember.js, must pick a new JavaScript framework of the year! Or I can just look at what front end jobs these companies are posting: https://www.indeed.com/q-apple-web-developer-jobs.html?vjk=b... https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=hashicorp+front+end&l=&vjk=90c... https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Microsoft+web+development&l=&s... and plainly see that they're not Ember, they're entirely React. I can find ONE mention of Ember from your company list, and it's a nice-to-have skill for a backend role: https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7751f4d47fbf9760&tk=1h9hc6... If we're going to suggest any dishonesty is taking place, it would be the implication that these companies are Ember shops and not just dealing with lamentable choices that happen to still be in production and too costly to replace.
In Svelte is surprisingly easy to learn
msum·Mar 9, 2020
This is neat to read. The README for the Ember.js repo (github.com/emberjs/ember.js) was updated recently too, and I feel like there's a lot more specific clarity about what Ember really has to offer, especially for folks who might not have considered it an option yet.
In The Evolution of Ember.js at Intercom
hknd·May 24, 2018
You are comparing a view library (react) with a full framework (ember). Ofc you are supposed to pull things together with react, that's exactly what's intended. Compared to react, ember is: slow (1), more difficult to learn (2), has a much smaller community (3) and, most important aspect to me, has a huge footprint (4). (I'm not against ember, it might have some nice aspects and features. It was really nice during the time when they released 1.0. But today I just think their are better options available) 1: https://auth0.com/blog/face-off-virtual-dom-vs-incremental-d... 2: https://guides.emberjs.com/release/ 3: https://github.com/facebook/react vs https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js 4: https://gist.github.com/Restuta/cda69e50a853aa64912d
In ReasonML – React as first intended
lightblade·Jun 18, 2017
Meaningful contribution in what way? This is Vue's contribution graph sorted by addition: https://github.com/vuejs/vue/graphs/contributors?from=2016-0... The #2 person contributes only about 1% compared to the #1 person. Compare to React's same graph: https://github.com/facebook/react/graphs/contributors?from=2... The #2 person is at about 50% of the #1 person. Compare to Ember's same graph: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/graphs/contributors?from... The #2 person is at 75% of the #1 person.
In Will Vue.js become a giant like Angular or React?
akst·Jul 27, 2016
While I believe it would be nice to have a lambda version of this as it's a more general abstraction (and I believe there's something along those lines in ember), Ember makes a big emphasis on convention over configuration and this isn't limited to the build system but also it's runtime apis as well. It's pretty common in ember to look up a property by string to set or get using the methods `get` and `set` on an ember object (ember has it's own object model[1]), and these property keys/strings can also express nested properties by spacing dots between nested property names. Like `user.get('organisation.name')` to get an user's organisation and the name of the organisation, this handles the situation when organisation is null, by returning null. So it's similar to `user.organisation?.name` in swift. So for consistency sake and predictabili
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ty sake ember also uses a string for this method. If we look at the implementation[2] you can see it use's a method called `guidFor`, it basically handles the whole null checking stuff, which in a lambda version would look something like var arr = [{ value: 'a' }, { value: 'a' }, { value: 'b' }, { value: 'b' }]; arr.uniqBy(element => (element != null) ? element.value : null); `guidFor`[3] also works for nested properties as well, so if you were looking for a property on `value` it would starts to get messy. [1]: https://guides.emberjs.com/v2.1.0/object-model/ [2]: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/blob/45c92fb2c8931b4ca41... [3]: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/blob/45c92fb2c8931b4ca41...
In Ember.js 2.7 and 2.8 beta released
mixonic·Aug 13, 2015
Comparing framework size directly is not very meaningful. For example Bustle.com, already running Ember 2.0 today, sits at: * 155K of vendor JS (Ember, jQuery, addons) * 76K of app JS Artsy.net is a universal/isomorphic JS website using Backbone. Backbone is maybe a tenth the size of Ember, maybe. Their homepage payload sits at: * 26K jQuery * 6K raven JS * 127K analytics JS * 300K main layout JS * 274K homepage app JS * + stripe Now I also think Artsy does a lot more than Bustle, to be fair. However the point is that framework size is only a part of the story. The complexity of your code, how you ship it, and how concisely the framework lets you express a design are all extremely impactful. Ember gives you a big bang for your buck with that 108K (a minified, gzipped 2.0). In practice not many people find this to be the
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main performance hurdle in their apps, but regardless we're working toward smaller payloads (something we call "svelte builds") and better initial execution performance (https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/pull/11576).
In Ember.js 2.0 Released

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