State of Ember.js

State of Ember.js

Amy Lam

• 🐹 Ember Learning Core Team
• 📝 Editor, The Ember Times
• 💻 Senior Software Engineer at Fastly
• 🐦 @amyrlam on Twitter
• 💾 github.com/amyrlam

Recent Milestones

Ember 3.3

• Ember.js
  • New feature: Make jQuery optional
  • Deprecation: Operations “make jQuery optional” continues
  • Deprecation: Three private, unused classes Ember.Map, Ember.MapWithDefault, Ember.OrderedSet were dropped
  • Deprecation: Ember.copy and Ember.Copyable
• Ember Data
• Ember CLI

Ember 3.4

• Ember.js
  • New feature: Angle bracket invocation
  • New feature: new Custom Component feature enabled by default
  • Deprecation: Use closure actions instead of sendAction
  • Deprecation: Last version of Ember that will work with ember-2-legacy
• Ember Data
  • First Long-Term Support (LTS) release ever!
  • Will now follow same LTS cycle and process as Ember
• Ember CLI
  • New feature: Adds support for Node 10, drops support for Node 4
  • New feature: Adds automatic template linting via ember-template-lint

Ember 3.5

• Ember.js
  • For contributors, the Ember.js codebase itself now uses TypeScript 3.0 internally
• Ember Data
  • New feature: Ember Data powers for addon developers
    • RecordData gives addon developers much needed API access with more confidence and stability
• Ember CLI
  • New feature: Upgraded to Broccoli v2.0.0
  • New feature: Build performance improvements of up to 32% 🎉
  • New feature: migration to ember-qunit

Roadmap RFC

Ember 2018 Roadmap

• Improve communication and streamline decision-making, and empower new leaders
• Finish the major initiatives that we’ve already started
• Ship a new edition, Ember Octane, focused on performance and productivity

Align the Ember community around a set of shared, achievable goals that balance the needs of existing users with the need to grow and support new use cases

Improve communication

• Continue to expand and refine the team structure
  • Ember.js Core, Ember CLI Core, Ember Data Core, and Ember Learning Core
  • Established Ember Steering Committee
• Move to discoverable communication tools
• Automate communication
• Document “best practices” for core teams
• Invest in mentoring

Finish what we started

• Broccoli 2.0
• Module Unification
• Glimmer Components
• Native JavaScript classes
• Native JavaScript modules, including:
  • Exposing modules in the build pipeline
  • Publishing Ember as npm packages
  • Importing npm packages into your Ember apps with zero additional configuration

Ember Octane

• Octane will focus on the themes of productivity and performance
• Ember Octane is about doing more with less
• Highlights:
  • No jQuery
  • Svelte builds
  • Native JavaScript classes
  • Glimmer components
  • Incremental rendering and rehydration
  • Treeshaking
  • Eliminating the runloop
• Non-goals

Community Initiatives

EmberConf 2019

• 👉 CFP is open: talk proposals will be reviewed until November 18
  • Our Call for Papers (CFP) is public, starts out blind, and feature a collaborative process to help applicants improve their proposals
  • We welcome those who are new, community veterans, and everyone in between
• 📆 Save the date: March 18-20 in Portland, OR
  • EmberConf is the best place to meet the folks behind the magic
  • You’ll hear from members of the Ember Core Team, top community contributor and users
  • Help shape the future of Ember!

Keep in touch

• 📰 The Ember Times
  • Weekly covering all things Ember-related
  • Wondering about something related to Ember, Ember Data, Glimmer, or addons in the Ember ecosystem, but don’t know where to ask? Submit a Readers’ Question (can be anonymous!) and we’ll get an answer for you in the newsletter
  • Follow us on Twitter @embertimes, subscribe to emails, or read on emberjs.com/blog
• 💬 Discord chat
  • The Ember Community migrated away from Slack
  • Unlimited chat history!
• 📁 discuss.emberjs.com

Thank you!

References

• Ember 2018 Roadmap RFC
• EmberConf
• emberjs.com/community