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Animate chess pieces with ember-animated
animation

Animate chess pieces with ember-animated

I've used ember-animated [https://github.com/ember-animation/ember-animated/] in the Sac Sac Mate app in several places: to animate the list being resorted [https://devjournal.balinterdi.com/using-ember-animated-to-resort-a-list/] and to move the player's

  • Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi
4 min read
Adding autoplay to games
ember.js

Adding autoplay to games

The main feature I added this week to Sac Sac Mate is the ability to autoplay a game, so that the user doesn't have to click (or tap) the "make next move" potentially

  • Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi
1 min read
Setting link activeness – the modern way
ember.js

Setting link activeness – the modern way

I realize a blog post with "modern" in its title regarding a JavaScript framework will be laughed at a few years down the line, but it makes for a catchy title. "Setting link

  • Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi
5 min read
Implementing conditional linking
sac-sac-mate

Implementing conditional linking

In the previous post [https://devjournal.balinterdi.com/thinking-about-conditional-linking/], I outlined what I need and a possible solution to make it work. Here, I'm going to briefly write about how I implemented it

  • Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi
3 min read
Thinking about conditional linking
api

Thinking about conditional linking

In certain apps, there's a need to show data from related resources that might or might not exist. One example that comes to mind is a wiki where an article can link to

  • Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi
4 min read
Rendering the chess board – declaratively. Part 1.
emberjs

Rendering the chess board – declaratively. Part 1.

Having decided that I want to include the ability of stepping through chess games in the MVP [https://devjournal.balinterdi.com/extending-the-original-mvp/], I set to implementing that feature. My first thought was  to

  • Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi
5 min read
Extending the original MVP (aka. moving the goal posts)
sac-sac-mate

Extending the original MVP (aka. moving the goal posts)

At this point, I realized I've completed the pieces needed for my original, self-inflicted MVP [https://devjournal.balinterdi.com/coming-up-with-an-mvp] . However, I reckon that MVP wasn't ambitious enough. At the risk of moving

  • Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi
1 min read
Adding fly-over animation from list to details
sac-sac-mate

Adding fly-over animation from list to details

After I made list resorting animate [https://devjournal.balinterdi.com/using-ember-animated-to-resort-a-list/] I got excited about how much ember-animated can do with how little code. I was hooked and signed up to EmberMap's animation

  • Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi
2 min read
Using ember-animated to re-sort a list
ui

Using ember-animated to re-sort a list

Animations can spice up user interaction but their best use is to help the user understand what's going on on the page, as a result of their action. I wanted to use animations

  • Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi
3 min read
Coming closer to understanding D3's data joins
d3

Coming closer to understanding D3's data joins

This is one of those posts where I'll describe the challenge I've faced and how I overcame it, so that you, dear reader, can hopefully learn how not to get bogged down with

  • Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi
2 min read
New project: Sac Sac Mate
emberjs

New project: Sac Sac Mate

There are always several things in the broadly interpreted world of software development I want to learn about. What usually works for me is instead of (or rather, in addition to) reading articles and books or watching videos about the topic, I build something with those tools.

  • Balint Erdi
    Balint Erdi
2 min read
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