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The Ember Times - Issue No. 69 |
Chris Ng, Alon Bukai, Jessica Jordan, Amy Lam, Ryan Mark |
Recent Posts, Newsletter, Ember.js Times, Ember Times, 2018 |
blog/2018/10/19-the-ember-times-issue-69.html |
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Emberistas! 🐹
A recent Request for Comments (RFC) from the magical Ember Data Land takes us on a journey through error handling in Ember: It proposes the addition of new error handling methods which do not affect the state of your data records to the DS.Errors class.
Read more about the new, proposed API and the motivation behind it in the original proposal and feel free to discuss!
Previous RFC-driven efforts already provided an option for you to exclude jQuery from your Ember app builds easily (1, 2, 3). Now a follow-up RFC takes the idea of reducing the initial bundle size of apps even further.
The new proposal envisions apps to provide an easy opt-in for the UI library, but to exclude jQuery by default. The RFC suggests that this will make it easier for developers and addon authors to provide smaller apps from the start and only include the dependency back in if it is really needed.
Curious to know more? Here's the full proposal.
You might have noticed that sometimes when a new release of Ember is out some API documentation can disappear. This happens when code gets moved around in Ember, such as putting functions in their own modules, which makes it easy to make mistakes that impact the documentation parser. @ef4 added test coverage for exactly these cases.
This means that when a new release is prepared these tests will most likely catch any unintentional documentation changes.
Fetching your data from a JSON:API compliant backend? Not sure how to tell Ember Data explicitly to look up an included relationship in the payload itself vs. via an additional request using the response's link attribute?
Possibly, this will be much easier very soon! Another new, Ember Data related RFC proposed the addition of a shouldFindViaLink method to the public API of REST adapters. According to the proposal, users may overwrite this method - which should return a Boolean to indicate if Ember Data should look up relationship data via links or not - themselves for custom behavior and gain full control of their relational data loading.
You can read more about the design of this proposed API in the RFC itself!
User interface transitions that happen in a SPA are problematic for screen reading software since traditionally they are reliant on reading out the text on page load. Since there are some visual changes on the screen but the page does not reload in an SPA, it makes it difficult for screen reading software users to be aware of UI changes.
To solve this issue, @sarbbottam released a brand new addon to enable screen reading software to speak the content of the new node by focusing on the HTML node of the dynamic content. The new addon ember-self-focused provides a component and a service to keep track of the HTML nodes to be focused.
Check out more in @sarbbottam's blog post or at the GitHub repo!
This week we'd like to thank @btecu, @locks, @ssutar, @josemarluedke, @KamiKillertO, @rwjblue, @wifelette, @tylerturdenpants, @devpuppy, @amyrlam, @runspired, @pixelhandler, @sduquej, @nummi, @rwwagner90, @stefanpenner, @Turbo87, @mydea, @mattdonnelly, @Gaurav0, @gowthamrm, @dcombslinkedin, @SparshithNR, @buschtoens, @chiragpat, @mansona, @esbanarango, @Ricool06, @aklkv, @JonoLightning, @LalithaRajanala, @YoranBrondsema, @worace, @sivakumar-kailasam and @joshmcrty for their contributions to Ember and related repositories! 💖
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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That's another wrap! ✨
Be kind,
Chris Ng, Alon Bukai, Jessica Jordan, Amy Lam, Ryan Mark, and the Learning Team