Assert Your Style - Testing CSS in Ember Apps

Sometimes you really want to make sure that your web application looks good; and that it keeps doing so in the future. Automated tests are an important foundation for making your application's appearance future-proof and this may involve the integration of a screenshot-based testing tool like Percy.io or PhantomCSS.

But writing your own visual regression tests for critical styles in your application can be really useful, too - and it can be easily done on top of that!

December 10, 2018

A Little Encouragement Goes a Long Way in 2018

In May 2018, Ember Core team member Katie Gengler published Ember's 2018 Roadmap: A Call for Blog Posts. With this call-to-action she invites the community to give feedback on their hopes and wishes for Ember moving forward. In this context, I also want to share some of my own thoughts on Ember and what I'd be excited to see in its nearest future.

May 30, 2018

Creating Web Components with Glimmer

At this year's EmberConf the Ember core team officially announced the release of Glimmer - a light-weight JavaScript library aimed to provide a useful toolset for creating fast and reusable UI components. Powered by the already battle-tested Ember-CLI, developers can build their Glimmer apps in an easy and efficient manner as they already came to love building applications in Ember.js before.

August 28, 2017