Bradley Priest

Sorry guys and gals, it’s been a couple of weeks since I last posted, been busy beta launching my new startup TradeGecko, now back to the scheduled programming.

Lot’s of big changes merged in the last few days, most newsworthy is the relationships-improvements branch of ember-data has been merged.

###Weekly Wrapup #16

Relationship Improvements

• The relationships-improvements branch of ember-data has been merged, this brings quite a few breakages along, particularly if you are modifying the defaults in any way.

• There’s a lot to see here, so I suggest you take a look at the new documentation. I’ll try and put together a migrating to ember-data V5 blog post in the next couple of weeks once I finish migrating my apps.

• If you have any outstanding issues PR’s against ember-data please take the time to check they’re still relevant and update them against the latest changes.

Updates

• PR #1406 gives us an Ember.Deferred mixin which (almost, still WIP) implements the Promises/A spec.

• PR #1354 adds support for passing multiple contexts to events.

• 305202 removes the dependency on the browser window, this should make it easier for people using Ember with technologies like CommonJS and AMD. Check out the commit for details.

• PR #1198 adds presentCurrentView, dismissCurrentView, appendCurrentView and removeCurrentView to Ember.ContainerView (and consequently outlets) for handling animations and so forth.

• PR #1425 fixes an error with popstate on Chrome

• 945cd4 no longer throws an error for Ember Apps without a router

• 134fc6 Ember now includes a basic instrumentation API.

• PR #1449 allows toggling extending prototypes by object type.

• PR #410 on ember-data changes the semantics of findAll() and adds an all() method which pretty much implements the old way.

Articles

• ghempton explains how he integrates Analytics with Ember.
• tomdale giving a talk on ember-data at last weeks Prague.js.

If I missed anything please let me know in the comments, twitter or IRC at #emberjs.

There’s a new documentation site up at http://emberjs.com/api/. All of the documentation has been converted to YUIDoc for this move, so if you notice anything strange please send in a fix.

###Weekly Wrapup #15

Breaking Changes

• bb149d Removes support for inline anonymous templates

• 1c7cf46 Adds the autoinit flag to Application, no need to call App.initialize anymore unless you are doing something obscure.

Updates

• Handlebars 1.0-rc.1 has now been released.

• PR 1310 The {{each}} helper now supports an itemViewClass for blockless use.

• PR 1340 Injections can be specified the order to run before/after others.

• PR 1317 The application initialization process has been refactored.

If I missed anything please let me know in the comments, twitter or IRC at #emberjs.

Been a bit quiet on github these last couple of weeks, I guess everyone’s got to do some real work sometimes. Still plenty of bug fixes and features being put together by the rest of the community though, which is good to see

###Weekly Wrapup #14

Updates

• 9ecb570 adds currentPath to Ember.StateManager and therefore the router as shorthand for calling currentState.path

• PR 1330 cleans up some issues with Ember.onerror in some browsers.

• Lots of documentation has been added to the core Ember.Application which should hopefully start to clear the basics up.

Articles

• trek has put together what is probably the best Intro to EmberJS article I’ve seen. It’s worth a read even if you’re an Ember pro.

• Ember Handlebars Helpers, Bound and Unbound from joliss.
  I personally had been using this gist up until now, but this looks like a cleaner alternative until PR 1274 gets merged.

If I missed anything please let me know in the comments, twitter or IRC at #emberjs.