#emberconf

I gave a talk with Andre about "Using Ember to Make the Seemingly Impossible Easy" at EmberConf this year. Here's the Video and Slides.

One of the things I spoke about was "Ember to make working with D3 easy". There are many reasons why we should use D3 with Ember for Data Visualization, but in this talk, my focuses were 1) productivity 2) Ember as a framework to nudge your code in the right direction.

Now I know why D3 jelly tastes so good with the Ember.js peanut butter. #emberconf @heyjinkim @ramcio pic.twitter.com/2KSbgOVSXe

— Tom Dale (@tomdale)

March 25, 2014

Great write ups: by Allison Sheren from Other Great Things I Learned At EmberConf

The second aspect they spoke about were visualizations. This is basically helping people understand the story behind the data. In order to do this effectively, they used an ember component (something that was frequently discussed throughout the conference). Basically, in an ember component, they encapsulated D3 code. They did this by defining a components, adding the D3 code into it which allowed them to draw a donut chart. I’d never heard of D3 code before but the main point was that by wrapping this code into an ember component, a developer can change/utilize the ember component to make the changes they need to instead of having to dive into the D3 code.

by Bill Heaton from We are EmberConf 2014

Frameworks are Designed to Nudge You in the Right Direction

Data visualization can be a complex chore for a team with varying strengths. Ember Component can be used to encapsulate complexity of using a 3rd party library like D3 for pretty data on screen. Application code can be built with more than one recipe to deliver a different experience by only changing the dependency for a router file. I find that once I get the concepts of using components to isolate behavior and reuse it in various contexts that is a very powerful and valuable convention. And Web components are in the not so far off future already. Welcome to the future :) (Not really.) But I do think that using Ember components is a peek into what will likely be a shared way build reusable components on the Web in general.

@ember_princess and @ramcio presenting Make the Seemingly Impossible Easy with #EmberJS at #emberconf pic.twitter.com/LmDut39t8w

— EmberSherpa (@EmberSherpa)