Resources Squared
summary
Argues that a new primitive—resources—unifies Ember patterns (helpers, modifiers, services, data fetching) as lifetime-bound resources with collocated setup and cleanup, implemented today via the Ember Resources add-on (works back to Ember 3.28) and intended to reach Starbeam parity. Shows live demos: a clock interval, websocket “most recent visitor” example, and composable remote-data requests; resources reduce boilerplate, avoid request duplication, and the demos run and clean up correctly.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 1:07QR codes and supplemental resources
- 2:30Disclaimers and goals
- 4:13Ember’s reactivity evolution
- 5:59Rethinking reactivity with values
- 7:47What is a resource
- 9:11Resource examples and cleanup
- 11:40Resource lifetimes and ownership
- 13:51Composing resources together
- 14:35Efficient data derivation
- 17:05Resources as values demo
- 19:13Composing interval resources
- 20:39Socket data with resources
- 21:42Data fetching with resources
- 23:26Loading data outside routes
- 24:51Solving request waterfalls
- 25:56Resources as modifiers
- 26:38Resources as services
- 28:01Resources as components
- 29:47Components as refactoring boundaries
- 30:51RFC and future work
- 32:39Summary and next steps
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