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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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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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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:01:02 AM UTC.

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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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Read the project’s introduction
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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ya, we should add descriptions. Mind opening an issue? https://github.com/emberjs/website/issues/new As for the question: Ember is actually built from many smaller pieces, such as: - container - ember-metal - ember-runtime - ember-views - ember-handlebars - ember-routing - ember-application - ember - ember-extension-support - ember-testing - rsvp As it turns out, you do not always need everything, so building the subset that you need totally works. ember-runtime is made of up: ember-metal and ember-runtime https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/blob/master/ember-dev.ym... It provides underlying foundation, including the object model and the KVO system to the rest of ember. Leaving out views, application, routing, and many more high level ideas.
In Ember.js 1.0 Released
We specifically looked at CanJS, Backbone and EmberJS. None of which have testability as a core feature. CanJS and Backbone barely mention how to do it, EmberJS has one tiny page on integration testing. Which practically means there isn't a established right way to do testing. And you as a developer need to figure it all out. Ember are improving this however, with the ember-testing package: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/tree/master/packages/emb... Backbone has countless tutorials on how to test, but it's not built into the framework.
In How to build a large Angular.js application
I added this Open Letter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5932981 I think that guy has a point with: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/commits/master/ember.jso.... "Ember is released in "revisions", because it's not production ready and not ready to be 1.0. Hence the core team chose to rather call breaking changes a new "revision". Well guess what dudes, that's exactly what versions are for. Why couldn't you just like normal people release 0.4, 0.5? Why do you need to hit 1.0 directly?"
In Ember.js 1.0 RC6 released
I think this guy has a point with: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/commits/master/ember.jso... "Ember is released in "revisions", because it's not production ready and not ready to be 1.0. Hence the core team chose to rather call breaking changes a new "revision". Well guess what dudes, that's exactly what versions are for. Why couldn't you just like normal people release 0.4, 0.5? Why do you need to hit 1.0 directly?"
In Anonymous Open Letter to the Ember.js Core Team
scardine·Jun 17, 2013Recommendation phrase
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 default (see this bug: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/issues/1642). Later I started to trip into namespace clashes - you have to jump a few hoops if your model has a field named "content", "is_new" or "is_deleted" (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16515900/reserved-atribut...). My general impression is: there is nice ideas here but Ember is too opinionated and has to many magic going on (hard to debug). In contrast, Angular shows better design everywhere. No name clashes, framework methods and attributes use special prefix $ (like python uses double underscores). Everything I got stuck with ember, I was able to achieve elegantly with Angular. I love the eviltrout
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but this post is lacking a bit of diligence. Angular learning curve is a little steeper but IMHO it is way more finished and well designed than Ember (Ember data has good ideas, they have a cute mascot, and it ends here).
In AngularJS versus Ember
To give Ember some criticism, we're struggling with debugging at the moment: The main issue https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/issues/2817 is that the run loop in Ember disassociates the invoking action from the event handler which makes figuring out what fired what a PITA. That and the stacktraces are useless makes hunting down bugs often more difficult than it should be. I don't know how this contrasts with other JS frameworks but we definitely feel the pain with this issue.
In Getting Started with Ember.js

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