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Ember is an JavaScript framework, based on the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern and used for creating single page applications. Recently, version 2.0 of the framework was released under the motto “Stability without Stagnation”. What this means is that Ember 2.0 didn’t ship with any new features, as those features intended for the 2.0 release (such as the Glimmer rendering engine) were already present in previous versions.

Ember 2.0 also removes many of the older APIs which had been deprecated in the 1.x versions. This means that if you can create an Ember 1.13 app which is free from deprecation warnings, the upgrade to 2.0 will be seamless. This is in stark contrast to the furor surrounding last year’s Angular 2.0 announcement.

The features intended for Ember 2.0 have been termed “precursor features” by the Ember team. So, for the rest of this article, I will be highlighting the major precursor features and how to use them. We will also examine some of the features intended for future releases.

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Precursor Features for Ember 2.0

Views

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Views have been deprecated in favor of components. Consisting of two parts (a JavaScript component file and a Handlebars template), components are isolated by design and are better suited to reuse throughout your application (unlike views). A compatibility addon is available which will be maintained by the Ember team until version 2.6 of Ember. This is to help transition apps making heavy use of views to the latest Ember. Compatibility of this addon with Ember will stop at version 2.4. When building new Ember applications, developers should favor components over views.

ArrayController and ObjectController

ArrayController and ObjectController have been deprecated in favor of the generic Controller class. This is because they created some unnecessary confusion among developers and there was ambiguity about which controller type is generated by Ember if none is specified. With this deprecation, there will only be one type of controller.

To make this transition, change code which looks like this:

exports default Ember.ObjectController.extend({

or:

exports default Ember.ArrayController.extend({

to:

exports default Ember.Controller.extend({

A controller addon is also supported until Ember 2.6 to help transition apps.

Attribute Bindings

In past, the {{bind-attr}} helper was used to bind properties to DOM attributes. With Ember 2.0, you no longer need this helper. Instead of doing something like:

<a {{bind-attr href=location }} >Link Text</a>

You can now do something like this instead, which is much nicer and clearer

<a href={{location}} >Link Text</a>

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