Ember had a lot of growing pains, but it's starting to come out of it's cocoon and spread it's wings. When you combine it with the massive productivity boost o

Ember had a lot of growing pains, but it's starting to come out of it's cocoon and spread it's wings. When you combine it with the massive productivity boost of ember-cli, tooling that does all the tedious and hard shit that no one wants to deal with, it's a big win. I recently made a simple app and decided to just write it in jquery and constantly found myself missing doing things "The Ember Way"™ Building an "ambitious" application in jquery alone would be complete madness and half-hearted frameworks don't really give you much benefit for all the wrestling you have to do. I really like that the Ember team strives to find the right way and deprecates parts of the api that they find people using in bad ways. I've also seen a lot a pragmatism around preventing bloat like removing string inflections etc... The best advice I have if you really want to try Ember is to read the guides, completely, word for word. Then try to write a simple app, using the guides/recipes/API for reference and then read the guides again, completely. Then do all that again. It won't take as long as you think and you'll be far ahead of where you would be reading some introductory blog posts. Admittedly, I have been frustrated at points, but that's par for the course with any js framework at the moment and if I had chosen Angular 1.x for any of my previous clients, I would be VERY embarrassed right now.