Ember Spotlight #3: Ember-Redirect
Ever had to deal with redesigning an application while maintaining old routes so that existing links out in the wild still hit the correct content? If so, Ember-Redirect has the answer! In the author’s own words, “this addon aims to be a simple and easy way to preform route based redirects with minimal effort.” Looking at the README examples makes it clear that this is truly the case, as redirects can simply be defined within the Ember Router and this addon takes care of the rest.
For my Open Source Good Deed™ of the week, I went through and submitted a PR upgrading the addon to the latest Ember-CLI blueprint, as well as adding a bit more interactive nature to the dummy app. As mentioned in previous Spotlights, I’ve also integrated ember-cli-github-pages so that a demo application can be easily deployed.
Looking to help out? You could submit a PR for one of the project’s few open issues or update the codebase to use modern ES6 syntax! This addon will fit naturally into the redesign of any Ember application, and I believe the Ember community needs a tool like this now more than ever as we upgrade our apps from 1.x to 2.x. Created by Travis Hoover of Yahoo!, Ember-Redirect provides a great API for maintaining old routes with ease.
