This week your help is needed to bring tree-shaking 🌳 to Ember apps! RFCs on route actions and dynamic tags are ready for your comments 📢. We're also highlighting Ember for CodeSandbox ✨, and the awesome #30DaysOfEmber 📆 series. Read on!
A promising approach to reduce the size of Ember apps dramatically is known as tree-shaking. This describes a way to exclude any code from your bundle which is ultimately not needed for your application to work as expected.
Actions in Ember are usually defined in a controller. However the addon ember-route-action-helper has existed for some time and allows you to easily use actions, defined in the route, inside your templates. Some say that this allows less dependance on controllers. A new RFC (Request for Comments) for Route Actions has been suggested by @vasilakisfilthat proposes integrating this helper into Ember core for use in all apps without the need for the addon.
It is important to state that the addon has a warning about using it and that controllers are still an integral part of Ember as explained last week in our Readers' Question: What is the Future of Controllers.
If you would like to chime in and join the discussion be sure to check out this RFC here.
@cibernox has submitted a new RFC suggesting dynamic tag names in glimmer templates. In the transition from using inner-html semantics to using outer-html semantics in components there's one feature that has been lost: Being able to dynamically define the tag name of components.
To solve this issue the RFC proposes a new element helper that takes a tag name and generates a contextual component that, when invoked, renders the selected element. Like this:
CodeSandbox is an online code editor that helps you create web applications, from prototype to deployment. It supports a variety of web frameworks, and with the latest release, now officially supports Ember. This was made possible thanks to a pull request by @mike-north.
Try it out today by clicking on Ember under server templates when creating a new sandbox!
@PoslinskiNet published a great learning series for those starting out with Ember. The #30DaysOfEmber series goes through 30 topics ranging from Computed Properties to Internationalization with the aim of becoming familiar with Ember at the end of it.
Wondering about something related to Ember, Ember Data, Glimmer, or addons in the Ember ecosystem, but don't know where to ask? Readers’ Questions are just for you!
Submit your own short and sweet question under bit.ly/ask-ember-core. And don’t worry, there are no silly questions, we appreciate them all - promise! 🤞
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Be kind,
Chris Ng, Jessica Jordan, Ryan Mark, Kenneth Larsen, Alon Bukai, Amy Lam and the Learning Team
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