Yep, you are right. There was Ember.State and Ember.StateManager, but it was extracted from the final v1.0.0. Instead of having one universal State Manager, rou

Yep, you are right. There was Ember.State and Ember.StateManager, but it was extracted from the final v1.0.0. Instead of having one universal State Manager, router, views, etc got they own. However, this universal State Manager is still exist and you can add to your project. https://github.com/emberjs/ember-states https://github.com/emberjs/ember-states After spending 15 minutes in the source code, it is ready to use... for example, it is brilliant to manage states in a component tree, where the original router would overkill.