The Ember Times No. 180 - May 21st 2021

[amyrlam]

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Addon/App releases

• Prettier supports Ember/Handlebars in v2.3 (🔒 @chrisrng )
  • https://prettier.io/blog/2021/05/09/2.3.0.html#ember--handlebars
  • ember-template-lint-plugin-prettier is a lint rule to ensure with ember-template-lint that a template has been formatted with Prettier. so, no it is not obsolete, because the two libraries are complementary. happy to continue the discussion in #dev-ember-tooling if you like! from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/841253753163218954
• If you use ember-auto-import, please try the 2.0 beta release so we can make sure it will work in your app! https://github.com/ef4/ember-auto-import https://twitter.com/eaf4/status/1390743656525668355
• Bootstrap update https://twitter.com/simonihmig/status/1395108904208633860, from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/844668583509360732
• I just release v0.2.0 of fractal-page-object with a few bug fixes and enhancements, including #embroider optimized compatibility for #emberjs users. from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/841718823895695380
• ember-electron Whoops, this is from a week or so ago -- forgot to announce here:
  https://twitter.com/bendemboski/status/1389000555826073602 from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/841716688764403752
• tracked-queue https://twitter.com/chriskrycho/status/1391816310951079936

New addons

• New addon with helpers allowing to construct BEM classes easier: https://github.com/retailnext/ember-bem-helpers from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/843815419227799582 (🔒 @MinThaMie )
• I recently released a new breadcrumbs addon inspired by ember-page-title. It's minimalistic but very flexible so it should be possible to fit into any kind of project. Let me know what you think! https://github.com/Windvis/ember-breadcrumb-trail from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/843897511852376064 (🔒 @MinThaMie )
• Ever wanted URL hashes to work in your #EmberJS app? But realized it was weird because of the async nature of SPA rendering? https://twitter.com/nullvoxpopuli/status/1385729107439259648 from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/835287902102487060 (🔒 @MinThaMie )
• I published ember-command: An implementation for the command design pattern in #emberjs. With special effort on the documentation - hope you like that style. Feedback is appreciated. https://twitter.com/unistyler/status/1384233881163812870 from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/833792741590433793 (🔒 @MinThaMie )
• Check out this add-on, which makes it easier to integrate custom css properties into your EmberJS application: https://github.com/onehilltech/ember-cli-custom-properties https://twitter.com/onehilltech/status/1384579911076155394 (🔒 @MinThaMie )
• #XState Machines as components in #EmberJS 🥳
  https://twitter.com/nullvoxpopuli/status/1385635954078146564 from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/835197513756573767

Articles

• ember-simple-auth (:lock: @fozy81)
• Logistics platform built with Ember live on Product Hunt https://www.producthunt.com/posts/fleetbase from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/834797595385004082 (:lock: @amyrlam)
• Embroider: from zero to route splitting in 3.5 weeks (🔒 @MinThaMie )
  • https://twitter.com/bendemboski/status/1395150769033150466
• Mention GAAD (to be published Thurs 5/20): Adds GAAD 2021 blog post #962
• Migrating Controllers to top-level Components in Ember https://dev.to/juanazam/migrating-controllers-to-top-level-components-in-ember-ggc
• New podcast https://twitter.com/shipshapecode/status/1384203762055585795 from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/833762683580448788
• I made a quick-reference site for folks who need to syntax highlighting or want to quick build out a demo of something with #EmberJS or #GlimmerJS https://twitter.com/nullvoxpopuli/status/1386430449858224130 from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/835990314439016471
• EmberJS: Using the in-element helper
  • https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/emberjs-using-in-element-helper-faith-or/
• An amazing engineer from my team wrote an article on how we migrated from ember-wormhole to the built-in in-element helper introduced in Ember 3.20. There's even a great demo you can check out in GitHub! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/emberjs-using-in-element-helper-faith-or/, from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/844296924588802108
• After reading @a_sandrina_p’s excellent post about disabled buttons on @css, I figured I’d make it easy for @emberjs and @glimmerjs users to put it into practice! Here’s a modifier which Does The Right Thing™ for disabling buttons if you really must from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/842592654696382474

Readers' Questions / Miscellaneous

• Ember 10 year anniversary pics https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480777444203429888/844922368223608832, see https://emberjs-nn.timepad.ru/event/1618665/, see https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480777444203429888/845017811172720652 for more

RFCs

• Ember Data 4.0 is coming. Open RFC's https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3AT-ember-data target 5.0 and won't be enabled until 4.1 at the soonest, once they are approved. from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/835409224405614608
• rfc: ember-data | Modernize PromiseManyArray rfc: ember-data | Modernize PromiseManyArray emberjs/rfcs#745 from https://discord.com/channels/480462759797063690/480499624663056390/839677931608997938

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