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Get collectively at EmberConf meetups 🍦, discover ways to use RouteInfo.metadata from EmberMap 🧩, attempt an Octane & JAM sandwich at EmberConf 🏎🥪🍓, monitor Ember app efficiency with Tracerbench ⏱, and check out the Associated Recordsdata Hopper VSCode extension 🤸!
In addition to studying quite a bit from the talks at EmberConf, it’s also an incredible place to fulfill folks and get to know them. One of many best locations to try this is on the meetups that may be organised by you.
Final yr there have been plenty of completely different meetups, from scrumptious food and drinks gatherings, to a nerve-racking chess event, and bouldering.
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Ember makes use of the RouteInfo object to ship route info. These embrace route identify, question parameters, and guardian route. Since Ember 3.10, RouteInfo carried an additional attribute known as metadata, the place you possibly can retailer and retrieve something you need in a route.
How would you employ this characteristic then? Within the newest What’s New in Ember video, Sam Selikoff (@samselikoff) exhibits how one can create dynamic breadcrumbs. Alongside the way in which, you will notice how one can examine a RouteInfo object too.
We encourage you to look at the video and share your personal purposes of metadata. You’ll find a few extra examples within the RouteInfo Metadata RFC.
Absolutely, you keep in mind him as the Emberista who constructed a weblog web site with Ember & Node in 15 min, you heard him discuss his work on an Ember-powered weblog engine otherwise you
recall him say JAM 46 instances in his jammiest introduction to the JAM (JavaScript, APIs and Markup) stack for people!
This yr, Chris Manson (@mansona) has much more insights into the trendy JAM stack to share with you!
At this yr’s EmberConf he will train us about An Octane-Powered JAM Stack; why the JAM Stack has turn out to be so common and the way Ember Octane blends in nicely with this strategy of internet improvement. However that is not all: you possibly can be taught hands-on find out how to construct your first JAM Stack web site with Octane and Empress at his EmberConf workshop Construct and Publish Your Personal empress-blog Template.
In an unique interview with The Ember Occasions, Chris shares with us, how common the JAM stack is and why it’s so helpful for constructing trendy web sites in 2020:
[…] My perception is that almost all Ember builders are already utilizing JAM Stack ideas. It’s not a binary factor, it’s not “you employ the JAM stack” or “you don’t”. As a substitute you may make your apps extra JAM and the query of if you wish to do it’s answered by if you want it. In case you want good web optimization, or for those who want quicker begin instances, you may wish to take a look at among the JAM applied sciences.
What’s going to our expertise constructing JAM stack web sites with Octane be like? Chris shares from his expertise as a JAM stack developer and as a workshop mentor:
The factor that most individuals like when utilizing JAM Stack with Ember, is the truth that you may get a lot by simply putting in 1 or 2 addons. In case you needed to train someone every little thing from the bottom all the way in which as much as getting it deployed, it might take for much longer and it might be far more tough. However leveraging the facility of Ember, leveraging the facility of Ember addons makes folks expertise fast wins and will get quite a bit accomplished in a short time.
In addition to studying concerning the principle and apply of JAM stack, what makes EmberConf your go-to convention in 2020? Chris shares his perspective on what makes the occasion so price being a part of:
The factor I most like about EmberConf is assembly folks, chatting within the hallway and the wild plans for the way forward for Ember that all the time appear to occur late night time over dinner or between two talks.
If you wish to be taught extra about Ember Octane, Empress and JAM, be a part of greater than 800 different Ember builders at EmberConf in Portland, OR, from March 16 – 18, 2020. Costs for normal attendee tickets begin from $449. Get your tickets, earlier than they’re offered out, on the EmberConf web site!
What’s Tracerbench? Suppose “Lighthouse CI” however with statistical rigor and extra significant information. With ember-performance-monitoring/tracerbench-compare-action, you possibly can monitor your internet app’s efficiency in CI. Though the library is common sufficient for any internet app, Tracerbench comes finely tuned for benchmarking Ember apps and addons through GitHub Actions.
Tracerbench’s motivation to supply clear, actionable and usable insights into efficiency deltas is totally defined in Tracerbench/tracerbench. There’s at present a spot in efficiency evaluation tooling for Ember apps. Builders at present battle to shortly discover and analyze efficiency regressions which might empower them to make fast, iterative adjustments inside their native improvement setting. The present strategy for efficiency evaluation is for builders to run a single hint utilizing Chrome Developer Instruments. Sadly, a single hint varies an excessive amount of to detect regressions to an internet app…except the regression is kind of giant.
We discovered about Tracerbrench from Chris Thoburn (@runspired)’s tweet the place he provides a shoutout to Kris Selden (@krisselden) and LinkedIn for his or her work on Tracerbench! We stay up for giving it a spin!
Ever wanted to maintain discovering associated recordsdata in your Ember repo utilizing VSCode? Suchita Doshi (@suchitadoshi1987) created an extension to make that leap simpler!
The Associated Recordsdata Hopper extension helps builders navigate by the a number of recordsdata which are touched when engaged on a characteristic. Inside Ember for instance, an individual including or eradicating one thing in elements/foo.js would seemingly additionally contact templates/foo.hbs and associated exams integration/foo-test.js or acceptance/foo-test.js. This extension supplies scorching keys for associated recordsdata if you’re working in elements/foo.js.
Attempt it out at present and make sure to depart some suggestions or contribute new options!
This week we might prefer to thank @bobisjan, @runspired, @efx, @chriskrycho, @MelSumner, @jamescdavis, @skaterdav85, @rwjblue and @jrjohnson for his or her contributions to Ember and associated repositories! 💖
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