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Don’t get me wrong. I think there where places where JavaScript, SPAs and so on where the right decision but we used the same tech all over the place. I think t

Don’t get me wrong. I think there where places where JavaScript, SPAs and so on where the right decision but we used the same tech all over the place. I think that is the negative impact of working in a future oriented industry and one of the reasons you might want some older people in your team to prevent new projects to be started on new tech JUST because it is cool now. But even within the JavaScript community and the tech there I sort of like Ember.js and it grew out of the Ruby and Rails community. It is not perfect but it fits SPAs perfectly and there is integration into Rails that makes the data handling less tedious (still need to try because unfortunately I got none ember projects + rails or ember + node.js). If I take my none Ruby and none Rails experiences of the last years I have to say I trust tech that comes from Ruby and Rails guys in other techs more. You can accuse me of Ruby chauvinism but I do believe that we as a community where better able to foster good taste in technology solutions.

joelbluminator 5y ago
Ember is pretty nice as a framework but the harsh truth is the community barely exists. As an Ember noob the fact that many Stackoverflow answers on Ember are outdated (Ember has changed a lot between versions), and many things are simply not answered or blogged on, is a massive productivity hit. Our company is now stuck with Ember, not happily married to it.
- johntdaly 5y ago
  You are not wrong, there where a lot of changes over the 3.x time frames and the info you can find online is often out of date. The community is small and most people are more interested in React, Vue or Angular. I still hope that something can be done since when it comes to SPAs I think Ember is a better solution than React, Vue or Angular.
  - joelbluminator 5y ago
    I agree. Other than the template part(handlebars) Ember is pretty sweet. It's a shame it got to the state it's in but it is what it is.

joelbluminator 5y ago

Ember is pretty nice as a framework but the harsh truth is the community barely exists. As an Ember noob the fact that many Stackoverflow answers on Ember are outdated (Ember has changed a lot between versions), and many things are simply not answered or blogged on, is a massive productivity hit. Our company is now stuck with Ember, not happily married to it.

johntdaly 5y ago
You are not wrong, there where a lot of changes over the 3.x time frames and the info you can find online is often out of date. The community is small and most people are more interested in React, Vue or Angular. I still hope that something can be done since when it comes to SPAs I think Ember is a better solution than React, Vue or Angular.
- joelbluminator 5y ago
  I agree. Other than the template part(handlebars) Ember is pretty sweet. It's a shame it got to the state it's in but it is what it is.