animation
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 photo from the list to the details page [https://devjournal.balinterdi.com/adding-fly-over-animation-from-list-to-details/
ember.js
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 a hundred times to see a game all the way to the end.
ember.js
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 activeness – in 2019" reads worse. The Sac Sac Mate app [https://sac-sac-mate.com]
sac-sac-mate
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 and include the screencast which gives you a glimpse into the process. If you prefer
api
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 other articles which might not be present. In my case, I knew very early on
emberjs
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 not reinvent the wheel and use chessboard.js [https://github.com/oakmac/chessboardjs] to render the chess
sac-sac-mate
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 the goal posts, I can now think of two features I'd
sac-sac-mate
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 workshop at EmberConf. Having finished the workshop, my enthusiasm rose to new levels. I decided
ui
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 for the sake of trying out ember-animated [https://github.com/ember-animation/ember-animated], the (not so)
d3
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 the same problem. The issue was that the chart on the Player details
emberjs
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.