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55 pointsadamnemecek17 comments

I will sign up in a heartbeat because I EmberJS is my primary workhorse framework. Please tag things that are Ember CLI though. Things pre-CLI are of no use to me because of how drastic the changes are.

Same here, Ember is a pretty solid framework. I've dabbled with React and Angular, but since I learned Ember first, Angular left a lot more to be desired, especially in routing. React I'm still trying to understand, it seems pretty limiting for my use-cases. Pre-CLI can still be valuable for learning certain concepts, although it may not be the BEST way of doing things.

Hey, glad you're enjoying the screencast! I've been using ember-cli in everything past episode 14. They don't always call attention to that fact, but everything is meant for use in ember-cli.

If you're looking for things that specifically address ember-cli features, I made a tag for that: http://www.emberscreencasts.com/tags/ember-cli

It'd be useful to identify with tags or something the version. There's a lot of pre-Ember CLI tutorials and videos out there, and it'd be good to know that these videos are targeting the latest and greatest, not techniques from 2 years ago.

When I make the screencasts, I try to use the latest version release, as well as ember-cli. Occasionally I'll miss that the week or two after a new version comes out, due to my recording schedule, but in general the release date will tell you what version I've been using.

With that said, labelling the version used in the screencasts isn't a bad idea. Thank you for the suggestion.

Cool - I assumed so. I wouldn't worry about a week or two old, as long as your viewing have a baseline for knowing that you're tracking releases pretty regularly.

It amazes me that Ember is not more popular than it is. Still, I can't complain -- it doesn't seem to have slowed those guys down in the slightest.

Is Ember the cool JS framework now? It seems nice enough to me. I have such a headache from thinking about this front-end framework idealogy. I've used a few tools but I generally don't make one-page apps so I stick to JQuery + micro frameworks and maybe some React.

I got to use Ember for a sweet four months before moving companies to one that uses Angular. While each framework has its advantages, I would say that Ember is far superior in terms of architecture, vision and a helpful web community. It also has a secure and stable path to 2.0 and becoming fully component-ized. I wouldn't say it is the cool framework though-- it rarely gets mentioned in the same breath as Angular and Backbone and React, and in terms of "coolness" here on HN, React seems to get all the love.

I personally think that Ember is the best one of the bunch. The only gripe I have with it is that I think that requesting models from multiple endpoints could be more ergonomic but other than that it's a pretty dank framework and it's getting danker with each release.

    >Is Ember the cool JS framework now?

My casual following of various frameworks (through HN and Twitter signals) seems that ~12-18 months ago Angular and Ember were duking it out for current "cool kid" status with Angular seeming to edge Ember out. But framework trendiness comes and goes like seasons of American Idol (or maybe Eurovision) and ~6-9 months ago React took the top spot for now.

I'd say this is fairly accurate from my standpoint compiling trends[1] from whoishiring threads here on HN. Ember has not really taken off like Angular and React. Angular was a rocket, but React is now rising even faster than Angular did, while Ember just goes along at a pretty flat pace.

[1] http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2015/...

"Javascript is not an Object-Oriented language, but Ember is"

Javascript is pretty clearly object-oriented, though the inheritance method (prototypal) is very different from classic OOP. Moreover I don't think Ember is actually doing anything crazy under the hood, so it's distinct "object system" is probably leveraging mixins and maybe some prototypal inheritance?

Ember is definitely leveraging prototypal inheritance under the hood... the object system is "just" some syntactic sugar so we can more easily reason about our code using the thought patterns we learned in other OO languages.

Perhaps you should use something other than YouTube to host, given the videos that are displayed at the end of the video? (Something like Wistia lets you embed an action, like an email signup, etc, and gives you analytics, and more)

Youtube does allow you to disable the recommended videos that shows at the end of the video in your embeds (also, YT does provide some basic analytics on your videos like how many views, how long people watched and such).

Both of these comments are helpful. Thank you!

I'm going to disable the recommended videos for now, and then investigate Wystia for a higher quality long-term solution.

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