👋 Welcome to 2024, Emberistas! 🐹

EmberFest 2023 videos 🇪🇸, Ember Europe meet-up video 🇪🇺, Glint Deep Dives 🤿, Practicle Blogposts 📝, Addons since 1st of January

Welcome to 2024!

It's been an irregular year when it comes to this amazing blog/newsletter. This edition does its best to wrap up some of the important resources released in the last quarter of 2023. It will not cover all the releases of the addons we usually cover. Starting this February we'll try to send out the Ember Times bi-weekly again and we could use your help. If you are interested in writing for the Ember Times, please reach out on Discord (#support-ember-times)!

If you are interested in keeping up with all that is going on within the Ember Core teams, you can join the meetings on our Discord server. Since the last time we published this list, two things changed. The RFC meeting happens twice on Friday to make it more accessible for people in/around the EU timezone. With Polaris coming up, on Monday you can join this meeting to see how you can contribute to making Polaris a reality.

• Monday - Learning team, Polaris shepperding meeting
• Tuesday - Tooling team (combination of CLI & Embroider)
• Thursday - Spec meeting
• Friday - RFC review (twice), EmberData meeting

🇪🇸 EmberFest 2023 videos

On the 21st and 22nd of September about 150 Emberistas got together for EmberFest 2023 in Madrid. A great variety of talks is now available on YouTube. Check out all the amazing speakers, both those on the schedule, as well as a surprise Q&A with Ed Faulkner (@ef4) and the lightning talks.

🇪🇺 Ember Europe: Update on Embroider initiative

Chris Manson (@mansona) provided an update on the Embroider Initiative's progress during his talk at Ember Europe’s final 2023 Meetup.

He addressed the Vite support and demonstrated an Ember app on Vite, explaining the importance of using ESM-compatible dependencies. He also discussed the challenges faced during the integration process, such as add-ons not being fully converted to ESM.

Chris introduced what will be in the next major release of Embroider and encouraged users to remain optimistic despite encountering issues due to cache busting by showcasing debugging techniques and the advantages of Vite's network tab.

🤿 Glint Deep Dives

Time to start binging, Chris Krycho (@chriskrycho) and Dan Freeman (@dfreeman) have released their 6th, and final, screencast on Glint. The last three episodes cover how to turn Handlebars into TypeScript, actually invoking TypeScript in the Glint pipeline, and language server shenanigans. Enjoy the dynamic duo, while they cover all you need to know and more about Glint.

📝 Crispy blog posts to help you along

• Context leaking in EmberJS tests by Michal Bryxí (MichalBryxi) explains why tests might be floppy when it comes to state and what you can do about it.
• What to use instead of @ember/string by Preston Sego (@NullVoxPopuli) shows you how to migrate from @ember/string to change-case
• Setting up Tailwind, the easy way by Preston Sego (@NullVoxPopuli) helps you to set up Tailwind in 8 steps, or if you are on node 18 with npx ember-apply tailwind.
• Troubleshooting CI test failures with Jenkins by Vasanth Kumar (@vasind) demystifies the problem where errors only show up in CI and how to learn from that.

🐹 Addon releases since the 1st of January

• ember-style-modifier v4. This addon provides a {{style}} element modifier to set the element's style. This allows to set custom CSS of an element without requiring a Content Security Policy style-src-attr: "unsafe-inline". The breaking changes for v4 are dropping support for node versions 14 and 16 and all Ember versions below 4.12.
• ember-eui v8.0.1 is now a v2 addon with glint signatures, single file components, and pnpm. This addon provides Ember JS components for the Elastic design system.
• ember-page-title v8.2.0 now ships its own types! This addon provides a helper for changing the title of the page you're on.
• pretty-ts-errors v0.5.3. This VSCode extension makes TypeScript errors prettier and human-readable. The latest version added support for Ember template tag components in .gjs and .gts files reported by Glint.
• vsc-ember-syntax v1.0.27 The latest release of the "Glimmer Templates Syntax for VS Code" extension added support for template tags in markdown files. This means you can now use gjs and gts for code fence blocks and get proper syntax highlighting in your editor.

👏 Contributors' corner

This week we'd like to thank ellnix (@ellnix), @emberjs-rfcs-bot, Jared Galanis (@jaredgalanis), Yehuda Katz (@wycats), Aaron Chambers (@achambers), Chris Manson (@mansona), Patrick Pircher (@patricklx), Chris Thoburn (@runspired), Gaurav Munjal (@Gaurav0), Kris (@awesomerobot), @NullVoxPopuli, Ignace Maes (@IgnaceMaes), Krystan HuffMenne (@gitKrystan), Katie Gengler (@kategengler), Kelly Selden (@kellyselden), Julien Palmas (@bartocc), Edward Faulkner (@ef4), Peter Wagenet (@wagenet), Jeldrik Hanschke (@jelhan), Giles Thompson (@gilest), Andrey Mikhaylov (lolmaus) (@lolmaus), Alexey Kulakov (@aklkv), Godfrey Chan (@chancancode), Melanie Sumner (@MelSumner), Simon Ihmig (@simonihmig), Andrey Fel (@andreyfel), Liam Potter (@evoactivity), Kristen (@pzuraq), Anne-Greeth Schot-van Herwijnen (@MinThaMie), @callpri, Ben Demboski (@bendemboski), Amaury (@AmauryD), Bryan Mishkin (@bmish), Jah Rock (@jahrock), Alex Kanunnikov (@lifeart), Michael Kerr (@Mikek2252), and Robbie Wagner (@RobbieTheWagner) for their contributions to Ember and related repositories! 💖

🤓 Connect with us

That's another wrap! ✨

Be kind,

Anne-Greeth Schot-van Herwijnen, and the Learning Team