Ember: Baby Steps

I met Tom at I/O last year and have been following Ember ever since. It's striking to me how consistently the message among newcomers is "this is hard/confusing".<p>I considered evangelizing it at my then-employer when it was still called SproutCore, but remember thinking "if it's going to take me at least a day or two before I begin to understand, how long is it going to take the rest of my team?"<p>There are a lot of interesting ideas in Ember. I'd love to see it take off. Hopefully we'll start to see documentation that makes it approachable for a wider audience of web developers.

I'm really glad Rob stuck with it and is starting to grok Ember. I promise it's worth it!

Very good introduction to Emberjs. I'm one of many frustrated beginners of Emberjs and dug through MANY MANY tutorials, screencasts, guides, etc etc and compared to most of them, this tutorial is good. I look forward to more of it and more advanced level of tutorials.

Here is the same (more or less) in angularjs: <a href="http://tinker.io/4b0d7/1" rel="nofollow">http://tinker.io/4b0d7/1</a><p>I left out routing as these are baby steps. This example aims to be simple and clear.

Well, this all sounds remarkably familiar: <a href="https://github.com/regularfry/website/blob/master/source/guides/getting-started/your-first-ember-app.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/regularfry/website/blob/master/source/gui...</a> <a href="https://github.com/emberjs/website/pull/316" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/emberjs/website/pull/316</a>

I've tried with Ember.js couple of times and really wanted it to work, but I gave up each time. I don't see how they hope to get more users with this kind of documentation. Documentation and community are crucial for success and adoption of open source software.

As mentioned in the other Ember.js thread, you can easily play with a hello world app here: <a href="http://beta.plnkr.co/edit/gist:5206526?p=preview" rel="nofollow">http://beta.plnkr.co/edit/gist:5206526?p=preview</a>

I've wanted to like Ember ever since it was SproutCore, but man--it's hard to get into it.<p>That said, writing like this might push us in the right direction.

Worked for this total noob.