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Andriy K.

Lviv, Ukraine

$32/hr
5.0
61 jobs
⭐️ Among the top 3% performers on Upwork (with a Bonus Package👇), 100+ satisfied clients, 14,500+ hours worked If you're looking for a team that ensures your product is built right the first time - on time and within budget - I’ve got you covered. [WORD-FOR-WORD FEEDBACK]: 🔶 “Andriy and his team deliver high-quality development with a customer-driven mindset. Their passion and responsiveness via Slack & Jira have been outstanding.” - Daniel Wiener, CEO, Autobound 🔶 “Andriy improved our system’s efficiency, reliability, and user interaction. His deep technical expertise and flexibility stood out.” - Alex Babich, CEO, Nuravine 🔶 “Softonix is a great development partner - highly skilled, communicative, and structured. Their two-week sprint approach kept everything on track.” - Chris McShane, CEO, Spencer 3D [WHAT I DO BEST] ❇️ MVP development that moves fast without sacrificing quality, AI automation, and scalable web & mobile solutions tailored to your business goals. ❇️ Technologies: - Vue.js (Nuxt.js) | React.js (Next.js) | Angular | TypeScript - Flutter (Dart, Bloc) - Unity (ARKit, Niantic Lightship) - Node.js (NestJS, ExpressJS, Koa) | .NET - PostgreSQL | GraphQL | MongoDB - Socket.IO, Twilio API - Responsive UI | Cross-browser compatibility - Git flow | CI-CD | Pipelines - Agile (Scrum, Kanban) using Jira/Asana/ClickUp ❇️ Clients: SMBs & Enterprises in Automotive, AI/ML Automation, Education, Logistics, and E-commerce. [BONUS PACKAGE]: As the Founder & CEO of Softonix, I’ve helped over 100 clients navigate complex tech challenges - balancing speed, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Having a team of engineers behind me means clients get the best of both worlds - the flexibility of a freelancer with the reliability of a full-scale team when needed. Flexible engagement options based on your project needs: 🔹 Staff Augmentation – Need extra hands on your project? Get an experienced developer embedded into your existing team, ensuring a smooth workflow and increased development velocity. 🔹 Turnkey Project - Looking for a fully managed, end-to-end development solution? From architecture to deployment, let me handle everything - delivering a market-ready product with a structured, milestone-based approach. [WHAT SETS ME APART] ⚡ No one-size-fits-all solutions. Every product is unique, and so is the approach. Let me tailor your project for scalability, efficiency, and long-term success. ⚡ Value Upfront with Business Analysis. Before a single line of code is written, the best strategy, key workflows, and feature prioritization should be mapped out - ensuring a solid foundation for development. ⚡ End-to-End SDLC Expertise. From discovery to deployment, let me and my team cover all stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) - minimizing risks and maximizing efficiency. ⚡ Transparent & Agile. Expect weekly updates, iterative releases, and a results-driven approach - so you always know where your project stands. [WORKFLOW]: I always use a step-by-step approach - ensuring your product is built future-proof from day one: 1️⃣ Discovery Phase – Aligning business goals with the right tech stack & architecture before development starts. 2️⃣ Product Design & UI/UX – Creating Figma-driven, user-centric interfaces for an intuitive user experience. 3️⃣ Agile Development – Building scalable, high-performance web & mobile apps using Vue, React, Node/.NET, Flutter, Unity, and more. 5️⃣ QA & Performance Optimization – Ensuring stability, security, and peak performance through rigorous testing. 6️⃣ Cloud & DevOps – Leveraging AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless deployments for reliability and scalability. 7️⃣ Long-Term Support – Dedicated to complex, long-term projects, ensuring continuous growth and improvement. 8️⃣ Seamless Collaboration – Staying in sync 24/7 with real-time updates via Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Asana, or ClickUp. Great products don’t build themselves (yet). Let’s make yours happen - drop me a message, and we’ll kick things off!
  • Vue.js
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Flutter
  • Unity
  • AR & VR
  • Next.js
  • .NET Core
  • Angular
  • Full-Stack Development
  • Mobile App Development
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • AI Platform
  • Minimum Viable Product
Arthur M.

Las Vegas, United States

$75/hr
5.0
35 jobs
👍🏻 "Working with Artur was fantastic. He took full ownership of our project and delivered vital improvements for our open source libraries. We got over 1,000 new signups after rolling out the new features." - Andrew H., CTO of a company servicing SalesForce, Heroku, twitch, BlueApron, Twilio and Kayak 👍🏻 "You're worth your weight in gold! Thanks to the development improvements you introduced our team is two times more productive." - Peter C., CTO of a San Francisco-based website averaging 1M+ visitors a day 😖 Are you not sure how to build the technology to deliver your service to thousands of users? 😬 Are your customers leaving you because the bugs on your website are just piling up? 😡 Is it too hard to find high-quality developers who don’t leave your projects in a mess? Welcome! I'm a tech entrepreneur and a master developer. I build internet businesses from scratch and help companies create profitable software every day. I’ve helped over 30+ companies from Silicon Valley, London, New York City and other tech-bubble centers launch Software as a Service. Over 8 years in the web development industry has taught me the secret ins-and-outs of the technology world. 💰 How can I help you? ✅ create your Software as a Service platform ✅ build a payment ready website that will bring you recurring revenue every month ✅ integrate you with Stripe, MailChimp, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and more ✅ cut your operations costs by setting up automation software, CRM and more ✅ build your Shopify store from ground up (or any other e-commerce) 🤝 What can you expect from me ➡️ I deliver what you expect and I deliver on time ➡️ a long-term business relationship (I do not accept one-off projects!) ➡️ no theoretical nonsense; I focus on what makes cash for your business 💰🤝💻 If you send me a message we will set up a call. You’ll tell me what you’re trying to do, what your current obstacles are and I will tell you how to build it. Let’s get in touch!
  • Ember.js
  • PHP
  • Ruby
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • Laravel
  • WordPress
  • HTML
  • Web Development
  • Project Management
Greg C.

Poltava, Ukraine

$60/hr
5.0
28 jobs
Frontend engineer with 10+ years experience. My strongest skills are: - JavaScript (Vue.js, Nuxt, Pinia, Vuex, Vite, Webpack, Socket.IO); - Three.js, GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform), WebRTC, Cesium; - HTML5, CSS3, SASS, LESS, Tailwind CSS; - Advanced SEO optimization techniques; - Responsive Web Design, PWA, Server-Side Rendering (SSR) / Static Site Generation (SSG) / Hybrid Architecture (SSR + SSG). - Node.js (Koa.js, Express, Phantom.js); - Rust (Rocket, Axum); - PHP (Laravel framework, Wordpress, ModX). - Version control: Git If you do something do it well or don't do it at all. This is one of my principles of my life especially in my work. I was involved to IT technologies and I like to be here. Programming is an art that help me to use my mind, my capabilities, my opportunities and, first of all, realize myself. I like produce good ideas and help other realize them working together.
  • Ember.js
  • Sass
  • webpack
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • Backbone.js
  • Vue.js
  • Laravel
  • PHP
Hussain A.

Alexandria, United States

$45/hr
5.0
20 jobs
Full Stack Developer with 4+ years of experience in working with Ruby on Rails along with front-end frameworks. I am interested in working in full-fledged systems or expanding existing products in sense of features and better functionality. Also, Have experience in working with RESTfull APIs. 👨🏻‍💻Skills: ➤ Development Languages: [C, Assembly, C++, Ruby, Python, Javascript] ➤ Frameworks: [Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, Shopify, VueJS] ➤ Databases: [PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3, Redis] ➤ Tools: [git, Visual Studio 2013, Xcode, Android Studio, Sublime, ZSH, JIRA, Trello, Asana] ➤ APIs: [AWS Product Advertisement API, Stripe, Sendgrid, Mailchimp, Customer.io, Twitter, Keepa, Nova, TransUnion] ➤ DevOps: Heroku, DigitalOcean, AWS EC2, ECS, RDS, EFS, SES
  • CoffeeScript
  • NGINX
  • Node.js
  • Amazon Web Services
  • AngularJS
  • Web Application
  • Web Design
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Vue.js
  • React
  • Twitter/X Bootstrap
  • Web Service
  • API
Francisco J. G.

Palma, Spain

$80/hr
5.0
20 jobs
"Outstanding supplier - versatile and honest. Hire him." "Francisco did an excellent job on this project. He was able to solve a very difficult problem that other developers struggled with. Highly recommend!" "Francisco continuously blew me away with the level of work delivered each day, exceeding all expectations constantly... The work he performs is first class. You will not be disappointed by selecting him." -------------------------------- francisco-gutierrez.me -------------------------------- Innovative and professional companies need senior coders to solve and deliver the required solutions to show that they are unique and serious players, and to help them secure long-term clients. Making a difference isn't easy using the standard tools, ideas and styles that have proven to be growth limiting. YOU NEED TO: ✔ Build trust with a web experience your audience can instantly feel comfortable with ✔ Stand out from your competitors ✔ Make sure you end up with something useful for you and your customers In other words, you need to create an experience that delights and converts. HERE'S WHERE I CAN HELP YOU: ✔ I will help you design the best interaction for your content and your audience, utilizing only the best practices and your requirements. This builds a unique web experience your visitors can relate to ✔ With a deep understanding of the possibilities and limitations of each browser and mobile device, I will develop a smart, front-end experience for your visitors that sets you apart from your competition ✔ I will apply robust techniques and code to empower your visitors, and I will give you the ability to easily understand, upgrade and maintain your system I WILL GIVE YOU AN OUTSTANDING USER EXPERIENCE. You can't afford to waste time and potential customers. You need to get the most out of every interaction with your application. You're a company or entrepreneur who is open to improvements. Does it sound like we'd be a good fit to work together? Send me an Upwork message by clicking the green contact button to the right of the page. // SERVICES // * Front-end programming: CSS3 + Html5 + Vanilla JS & React * THREE Js & WebGL * SVG and Canvas animations * Interaction design * Reactive programming * Back-end programming: expert .Net, intermediate Node, intermediate PHP, basic Java.
  • Ember.js
  • HTML5
  • CSS 3
  • JavaScript
  • Backbone.js
  • Front-End Development
  • MVC Framework
  • n2cms
  • Animation
  • ASP.NET MVC
Vasyl M.

Kiev, Ukraine

$56/hr
5.0
17 jobs
I'm a professional addict to building beautiful web apps & browser plugins. I use fancy modern open-source technology (like Ember.js and ES6), boosted by the power of innovative third-party services to create pixel-precise Apps with dynamic, feature-rich UI, predictable smooth UX, with virtually any imaginable user interactions feeling responsive and very «native». Built with quality-first approach, no compromises, componentized from tooltips and icons to drop-downs, select's, infinite image grids, charts, modals, dialog flows (wizards, on-boarding, guided tours), or even entire pages, or apps (of apps?) — all scalable and vector, highly future-proof, reusable and maintainable. Today my focus is set on Ember.js, front-end and browsers in general, and my essential tool-kit primarily includes: • Ember.js — fanatic addiction to crisp and clean, ninja-precision, ideologically proper, — declarative code, carefully component-ed into proper building blocks, — shareable, reusable, atomic, maintainable, stable and fancy • D3.js — combined with ember super-powers, d3 can yield truly amazing results, — but your code stays reusable and becomes shareable for no extra effort • EcmaScript6 (ES6) — strict code style, with latest best practices applied project-wide and — secured by a simple and customizable set of tests and validators • Many other tools — CSS3, SCSS, HTML5, QUnit, Mocha, Node.js, Express.js, — NVM, NPM, Bower, Broccoli, Grunt, Gulp, Phantom.js, — Vagrant, Chef, Puppet, etc. Developing, I squeeze full power out of integrations with many essential modern services: Github, Sentry, CircleCI, Slack, Facebook, Twitter, IFTTT, Maps, Notifications, all sorts of Mixpanels, Google Analytics, Intercoms. Service without public api? Can scrape, crawl, proxy and simulate :) I am well experienced with true, full-time «remote», can work on the go, very mobile, have experience with rapidly growing multi-timezone teams and start-ups. My path on the way to finally catching the «ember virus» started 10+ years ago and looked approximately like this: - at first: qBasic - VB for App..s - VB# - C# - ASP.net & MSSQL - and then: PHP & MySql & JavaScript (using since ES3) - and also: Java, deep, as in open-source rewrite of the lineage2 game server: -- buffers, thread managers, NIO, sockets, crypto, binary math, security; -- async 2-way binary/packet comm protocols: zip'd, crypto'd, crc'd, efficient; -- distributed mix of masters, hot data cached's, regional servers, clients; -- model object with hundreds of members & diverse interactions; -- all their data auto-in-sync with a push-notification-like system; -- most fun soon repeated with C# and multi-character game trade-bot; - and also: jQuery, ActionScript & Flash, Ext.js, MooTools, Prototype.js - and some: C++, Delphi & WinApi, bits of ASM & .NET MSIL, occasionally - and even: Forth, after it turned out perfect for scripting complex game quests - and then: Node.js & Express, some Ruby and Rails, some Postgres and NoSQL - and then: Backbone.js, Require.js, Grunt, SCSS, Bootstrap, Foundation, CoffeeScript - and finally: Ember.js and ES6 - and, oh wow: here comes IPv6 and IoT The Internet of Things hype has reached me as well: thousands manual, guide and RFC pages behind — IPv6 has been mastered, connectivity established, personal servers and virtual machines reconfigured, AR2 Drone charged & standing by, multiple more devices ready to join the party. I never stop learning, spend a lot of time hiking, horse hiking, mountain climbing, hunting and off-road driving. I'm a beginner into electric guitar, and photography is also quickly becoming one of my primary hobbies. Thanks for reading this far!
  • Ember.js
  • Node.js
  • JavaScript
  • CSS 3
  • HTML5
  • GitHub
  • D3.js
  • Test-Driven Development
  • Continuous Integration
  • Backbone.js

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An Introduction to the EmberJS Framework

Ember (also known as Ember.js) is a comprehensive JavaScript front-end framework that gives you everything you need to design and develop modern web applications. If you’re looking for a framework that strikes a unique balance between scalability, backward compatibility, and experimentation, Ember may be the framework for you.

Read on to learn more about Ember.js and its role in the world of front-end web development.

The Ember Way

Ember has come a long way since its initial release in December 2011, when the successor to the popular widget library SproutCore forked off into a separate project to create a full-featured framework for building scalable dynamic single page applications (SPAs). Today Ember.js powers prominent websites like LinkedIn, Groupon, and Twitch TV, and desktop apps like Apple Music. Some of the core themes that Ember embraces include:

  • “Convention over Configuration,” a concept popularized by Ruby on Rails, Ember encourages the use of bootstrapping a new project through its CLI to ensure that best practices are being followed and help developers get a head start on their projects
  • “Stability without Stagnation,” by making continuous incremental improvements to the framework across 6 week release cycles, preceding major updates with deprecation warnings, and maintaining a rigorous RFC (Request for Comment) process, major upgrades (like the switch to 2.0) go much smoother.
  • A proven commitment toward backwards compatibility (Ember 2.0 still supports Internet Explorer 9 at the time of this writing).
  • A more robust built-in router system
  • Early adoption of the latest JavaScript and web standards (i.e. ES6, Web Components)
  • A complete solution to solving the problem of creating “ambitious web applications”

With the release of Ember 2.0, Ember made some changes to keep up with the components-based future of web development:

  • Glimmer, a blazingly fast rendering engine that evolved into a standalone, lightweight UI components library
  • “Data down, actions up” (one way data flow by default)
  • Standard lifecycle hooks for components

In true Ember fashion, many “2.0” improvements were actually started in earlier versions, like the powerful Glimmer 1 rendering engine which shipped in 1.13.

Ember CLI

Many languages and frameworks have CLIs, but few are as robust or central to a technology stack as the Ember CLI. To keep its promise to favor “convention over configuration,” Ember’s command line utility allows you to generate a new app with a few simple commands to instantly get:

  • The latest approved file directory structure
  • A complete testing framework
  • A development server with live preview
  • The latest JavaScript modules and syntax support with Babel (i.e. ES6/ES7 at the time of this writing)
  • Dependencies managed via Bower and NPM
  • Blueprints (both built-in and custom) for creating models, controllers, components and other parts of an application
  • Asset management support for things like minification, version control, and combining
  • Add-ons that extend the functionality of the Ember CLI (like LESS, Sass, and CoffeeScript).

When best practices are updated, those updates can easily be flowed down to the community at large via the CLI. Better still, Ember has a dedicated team that tries to make updating existing projects as easy as possible, and automates changes through the CLI where possible.

Ember Routing

From its inception, Ember differentiated itself from other frameworks by placing routers front and center:

In Ember, the application state is driven directly from the URL, and much of an Ember app’s structure is centered around how you set a URL in response to user interaction.

Ember Templating Engine

Ember uses the popular Handlebars templating library as its templating engine. Handlebars templates are characterized by the use of static HTML with dynamic content via Handlebars expressions invoked with the double curly braces: Handlebar expressions are backed by a “context,” an object that provides the properties used by the expression. In Ember, this “context” is often a component.

Ember Data

Ember provides its own solution for ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) with Ember Data. In most web applications, models (the objects that represent the underlying data that your application presents to the user) are stored in a database on a server. If a user were to access something like their shopping cart, they might expect the items they put in there to remain, even after they’ve closed their browser or logged out of their account. This expectation for models to remain “persistent” is part of model management that is typically addressed on the server-side. What Ember Data does is give you an adaptive data layer that allows you to swap database technologies without having to rewrite anything on the front-end.

Whether you are using JSON APIs over HTTP, streaming content with WebSockets, or using local IndexedDB storage, your API is agnostic to the persistent data storage solution you choose to use, insulating it from most major changes to the back-end. Configuring Ember Data to work with a large variety of back-ends is as simple as picking the right adapter.

Besides adapters, another important part of Ember Data is the use of a store as a “single source of truth,” a key concept that continues to turn up in frameworks that have embraced component-based web development. To avoid the scenario where two or more components make two or more separate requests for the same information, Ember Data provides a single repository of all the models within an application that components and routes can query. The store handles the actual fetching from the server. In the event that two or more components or routes ask for the same model, the store will only retrieve data from the server once, saving bandwidth and avoiding bugs.

There is a bit of a learning curve to using Ember Data, especially if you’re more used to working with AJAX to retrieve raw JSON data from a server. However, it is worth mentioning that managing application state and maintaining your codebase as your app scales is much easier with something like Ember Data working behind the scenes to ensure your models remain persistent and your code is well encapsulated. You don’t have to use Ember Data, but most Ember applications use it as their go-to data persistence library of choice by default when you create a new app with the Ember CLI.

Ember Inspector

Looking for a browser add-on to help you read, and debug your Ember apps in real-time? Ember.js already has you covered with Ember Inspector, a browser extension that does just that. Ember Inspector allows you to view and edit your Ember Data models, routes, controllers, templates, and components, with live updates in your browser.

Should you use Ember for your project?

Ember is a powerful JavaScript framework that gives you everything you need to build scalable SPAs. Where Ember really stands is its ability to push the boundaries of front-end web development without leaving anyone behind. A tight knit community with great communication between the core Ember development team and the developer community at large ensures developers have time and warning to incrementally upgrade their projects with the framework and avoid potentially app breaking changes.

Consider using Ember if…

  • You prize “convention over configuration” and want a top-tier CLI that lets you easily bootstrap new projects with the latest best practices
  • You’re looking for a framework that stays up to date with the latest versions of JavaScript (ES6/ES7 via Babel).
  • You’re looking for backward compatibility and long-term stability
  • You’re looking for a thriving community with thousands of addons (4,000+)
  • You’re looking for a framework that does it all (from MVC to components based web development)
  • You embrace the componentized future of web development.

This article barely scratched the surface of the Ember ecosystem—from the ability to use server-side rendering with FastBoot, to the new standalone UI component library Glimmer 2, the Ember community is always cooking up new things for the developer community to enjoy.

6 Things to Love About the Ember.js Framework

How does the Ember.js framework stack up to the multitude of other JavaScript frameworks out there, and why would you choose it over another? We asked some Ember devotees why they love this MVC-style JavaScript framework and what makes it unique.

From a developer’s perspective, here are a few reasons to love the Ember framework.

  1. With Ember, the future is now. The JavaScript future, that is. With the help of the Babel JavaScript transpiler, Ember allows developers to use future JavaScript standards and transpile them for use in browsers today. (Generally, compiling speaks to transforming source code into another language that can be very different, while transpiling refers to transforming code into another language that’s similar, e.g. between versions of JavaScript.) Not familiar with Babel? Babel is a JavaScript transpiler that lets developers incorporate next-generation JavaScript—ECMAScript 2015, and beyond—into their code now. ECMAScript 2015 is the newest JavaScript standard as of June 2015. Also, Babel benefits from numerous plugins and is compatible with frameworks like Ember, Rails, Sails, and Meteor, and JS-build tools like Grunt and Gulp.
  2. “Convention over configuration.” Ember has well-defined best practices for how it is structured. This means developers can focus more on their apps’ functionality and unique features, and less on reinventing the wheel with tedious code. There’s more building, and less blueprinting. Put simply, Ember.js is built for productivity and its conventions are the core of this. It’s designed with developers in mind, with plenty of awesome APIs to help them get apps built—fast.
  3. Ember is the WordPress of JavaScript. While Ember is both newer (released in 2011) and smaller in terms of its user base, the core team is absolutely committed to backwards compatibility. Backwards compatibility is a philosophy of making changes to a software through new versions, but no changes that would cause older versions to stop working—something the WordPress content management system stands by and does extremely well. Major version updates in Ember remove deprecations, but they don’t add new features with changes that will break apps using older versions of the framework.
  4. Ember templates. Built into that beautiful UI are Ember’s templates, which are written with the Handlebars templating language. Handlebars is named for its use of double curly brackets and it allows developers to use way less code. Templates make a lot of features possible in Ember, like Components, Outlets, and Expressions.Templates are also automatically updated if anything changes to their underlying data. That’s because within Ember’s MVC architecture, its templates are backed by models (the M of MVC, or the data layer), and they support databinding. Updates to the model are immediately reflected in the template, with no extra work.
  5. EmberAddons.com. This is Ember’s plugin repository, contributed to by the Ember.js developer community. It’s got everything you need. Need an auth module? Just run “$ember install ember-simple-auth” and you’re 90% done. Other plugins in the addons library include tools for JSON APIs, caching, AJAX requests, and autocomplete functionality.
  6. Ember-CLI. Ember and Ember-CLI are two different things entirely, but neither would be totally whole without the other. Ember-CLI is a command line utility that comes along with the Ember framework’s software stack. For the non-developer, a CLI, or a command line interface, is a simple visual interface that lets humans interact with a computer’s operating system. Ember-CLI is a productivity rocket ship, with support for tools like CoffeeScript, Handlebars, LESS, and Sass. Ember also comes with the option to use other components of its software stack including Ember Data, a data library, and Ember Inspector, a testing extension for debugging apps.

AngularJS vs. Ember.js: Which JavaScript Framework Is Best For You?

A lot has changed since the early days of the web when a website would make a single request to the server, which would respond with the entire webpage to be displayed. Back then, the client-side of an application was a paper-thin veneer of HTML, query parameters, cookies, and request headers—and servers did all the heavy lifting.

It’s a very different story today. The front-end of modern websites is now complex enough to handle much of the magic that allows single page applications (SPAs) to deliver the sleek “desktop-like” user experiences that make them so popular. In this article, we’ll look at two of the most popular JavaScript frameworks available for building SPAs—AngularJS and Ember. Both are open-source frameworks based on the model view controller (MVC) design pattern that use wildly different design philosophies to achieve their goals.

Read on to learn more about these two competing frameworks.

What is AngularJS

AngularJS is a comprehensive, open-source JavaScript framework that solves the problem of developing SPAs by extending the functionality of HTML with directives. AngularJS famously describes itself as “what HTML would have been, had it been designed for building web apps.” The framework places an emphasis on simple modular code and test-driven development.

Some of the key technical features that differentiate AngularJS from Ember are:

  • Simplified syntax by using vanilla JavaScript objects for models
  • DOM-based templating with directives
  • Dependency injection
  • More flexible opinionation

AngularJS places an emphasis on getting your app up and running quickly. It opts for syntactic simplicity by using JavaScript objects for models. However, this comes with the performance tradeoff of relying on “dirty checking,” in which a deep comparison on all models within the view must be performed.

Angular developers must be wary of the number of bound objects within the view in order to avoid bogging down the application’s digest cycle. This isn’t usually an issue for most SPAs, but it is the major reason the newly released Angular 2.0 added server-side rendering and one-way data binding, among other major rewrites.

What is Ember?

Ember combines proven concepts from native frameworks like Apple’s Cocoa with the lightweight sensibilities of open-source frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Backbone.js to create an open-source JavaScript framework that can scale with an entrepreneur’s ambitions. Like AngularJS, Ember is a full-featured framework that specializes in making dynamic, beautifully rendered SPAs. Let’s take a look at some of the key factors that differentiate Ember from AngularJS:

  • Avoids “dirty checking” by using accessors
  • String-based templating system with Handlebars
  • High degree of opinionation
  • More powerful routing at the expense of added complexity

Ember emphasizes scalability—it’s meant for apps that plan to scale into much bigger projects, and like a concerned parent, it enforces stricter rules on how you write your code to ensure that your application avoids bottlenecks and is primed for growth.

By opting for a string-based templating system like Handlebars, it’s possible to achieve quicker boot times by pre-compiling templates on the server. Server-side rendering also has the SEO (search engine optimization) advantage of natural indexing by Google crawlers—AngularJS by comparison must boot an entire browser environment called PhantomJS, which can really put a drain on resources. The tradeoff? The code is more complex.

Which framework is right for your needs?

Both AngularJS and Ember serve a similar singular purpose—to make the development of dynamic SPAs with engaging UI/UX faster and easier for the developer. That means both offer perks like two-way data binding, DOM manipulation, easy unit testing, modular code, and the benefits of the MVC architecture. Where they differ is in their design philosophies and goals.

Use AngularJS if…

You’re starting a new project from scratch, time is at a premium, and your application is a small to medium-sized app. These applications are unlikely to run into the “dirty checking” bottleneck, meaning you’ll be able to take full advantage of the simplicity and coding speed that comes with using vanilla JavaScript objects as models. AngularJS is also a good choice if you like the feel of manipulating the DOM with an extended HTML syntax or wish to take advantage of the much larger community.

Even if you’re feeling ambitious, it’s worth noting that with the release of Angular 2.0 it’s now possible to take advantage of server-side rendering and avoid the pitfalls of “dirty checking,” provided you’re willing to tackle the learning curve that comes with a major rewrite.

Use Ember if…

You’ve got big plans for your app and want to make sure you build your SPA right from the bottom up. Frameworks exist to help developers work in accordance with best practices and avoid coding themselves into a bottleneck. Ember was designed with the mindset of “standing on the shoulders of giants” and it really shows within the careful (albeit verbose) syntax of this framework.

Other reasons to consider Ember—even if your application is to remain smaller—is that it offers faster boot times and inherent stability. With the recent release of Ember 2.0, the framework has been modified to bring out the best of Glimmer, Ember’s blazingly fast rendering engine.

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