Octane moves Ember to an HTML-first approach (JS Party #114)

KBall and Nick dive deep with Chris Manson and Jen Weber from the Ember core team. They talk about Ember.js: What it is, why it’s different, what’s new in the Ember Octane release, and what’s exciting in the future of the project.

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Featuring:

• Jen Weber – GitHub, X
• Chris Manson – Website, GitHub, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Segment 1: About Ember

• Ember Engines


• Upgrades in Ember


• Glimmer

Segment 2: Ember Octane

• Octane is Here


• Ember Guides: Testing Components


• Ember Guides: Template Lifecycle DOM and Modifiers


• Ember Guides: Autotracking In Depth


• Ember Guides: The Ember Tutorial

Segment 3: Future of Ember

• To Have A Future, Ember Must Kill Its Past


• RFC: Ember 2018 Roadmap


• RFC: Editions

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!