ember-could-get-used-to-this

Ember Could Get Used To This is an opinionated take on the future direction of non-component template constructs in Ember. See this blog post for more details!

Compatibility

• Ember.js 3.23 or above
• Ember CLI v2.13 or above
• Node.js v8 or above

Installation

ember install ember-could-get-used-to-this

Usage

Functions

Good news! As of Ember 4.5, this feature is now built into Ember, and includes both positional and named arguments. For more details, read the Plain Old Functions as Helper blog post.

You can export plain functions from inside app/helpers and use them as helpers. This only support positional arguments:

// app/helpers/add-numbers.js
export default function addNumbers(number1, number2) {
  return number1 + number2;
}

{{! Usage in template: outputs 13 }}
{{add-numbers 10 3}}

Modifiers

You can define your own modifiers. You can do so using either a class-based or a functional style.

Modifiers can be used like this:

<button {{on "click" this.onClick}}>My button</button>

Functional modifiers

import { modifier } from 'ember-could-get-used-to-this';

export default modifier(function on(element, [eventName, handler]) => {
  element.addEventListener(eventName, handler);

  return () => {
    element.removeEventListener(eventName, handler);
  }
});

Class-based modifiers

// app/modifiers/on.js
import { Modifier } from 'ember-could-get-used-to-this';

export default class On extends Modifier {
  event = null;
  handler = null;

  setup() {
    let [event, handler] = this.args.positional;

    this.event = event;
    this.handler = handler;

    this.element.addEventListener(event, handler);
  }

  teardown() {
    let { event, handler } = this;

    this.element.removeEventListener(event, handler);
  }
}

Resources

Resources are, as of now, also defined in the app/helpers directory. They can be either used directly in your templates, or by a JavaScript class.

// app/helpers/counter.js
import { tracked } from '@glimmer/tracking';
import { Resource } from 'ember-could-get-used-to-this';

class Counter extends Resource {
  @tracked count = 0;

  intervalId = null;

  get value() {
    return this.count;
  }

  setup() {
    this.intervalId = setInterval(() => this.count++, this.args.positional[0]);
  }

  update() {
    clearInterval(this.intervalId);
    this.intervalId = setInterval(() => this.count++, this.args.positional[0]);
  }

  teardown() {
    clearInterval(this.intervalId);
  }
}

This example resource can be used from a template like this:

{{#let (counter @interval) as |count|}}
  {{count}}
{{/let}}

Or in a JS class:

// app/components/counter-wrapper.js
import Component from '@glimmer/component';
import { use } from 'ember-could-get-used-to-this';
import Counter from 'my-app/helpers/counter';

export default class CounterWrapper extends Component {
  @use count = new Counter(() => [this.args.interval]);
}

{{! app/components/counter-wrapper.hbs }}
{{this.count}}

If you provide an update function in your resource, this will be called every time an argument changes. Else, the resource will be torn down and re-created each time an argument changes.

You can also provide named arguments to a resource, which are available via this.args.named.

Contributing

See the Contributing guide for details.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.