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There exists a viewpoint that Ember Data is “broken”; that the core team has abandoned the project and that the codebase is awash with issues. This is far from the reality of the situation, as I personally know many people who are successfully using ED on real projects. It is…

Inevitably, if you are building any web application, you are going to need some form of analytics. Single page javascript applications are no exception. Unlike normal applications, however, integrating Google Analytics and Mixpanel is not as trivial as including some javascript…

Four months ago, in February, I wrote a blog post detailing a strategy for handling routing and layout in Ember.js. This was at a time when there was no support for these features in Ember’s core. Today, however, this is not the case. Ember now has the notion of a Router and an…

At the core of any web application is a mapping between urls and application logic; a mapping between what is in the browser’s address bar and what should be displayed on the screen. Rails has routes.rb, Django has URLconf, Backbone.js has Backbone.Router, and Sammy.js has…

Having used Ember.js for a few months now, I have compiled a list of gotchas that I have encountered. Many of these will change/be fixed as Ember matures, but until then I hope these will serve as pre-emptive time savers for other developers.

I am long on Ember.js. I previously wrote a brief comparison of some of the more popular javascript frameworks, and Ember came out on top. I am now in the process of incorporating it into GroupTalent in a big way.