Ember.js Ticks

ember_ticks.md

Design decisions made in ember.js which I do not understand:

Templates

{{variable}}

vs.

{{view 'thing' variable}}

vs.

{{textarea valueBinding='variable'}}  # why quotes here ??

Rending a template

• route ties it to a url
• render is the same ??? but doesn't tie it to a url
• _partial vs. component/thing # why the underscore? why component/ ?

sending data into a Component is done by making up variables

it should be a standard interface

• a 'data' object or similar
• like python's explicit 'self'

properties

Why would I need to do:

Controller = blabla{
    variable: 5,
    computedThing: function() {
        return this.get('variable') * 2; # why this
        return variable * 2;             # instead of this
    }.property('variable')               # when it's being recalculated dynamically anyway ?
}

Maybe that would be coupling 'when this should run' and 'use updated values' ?

Views

What are views even for? Can they have 'actions' lists? Do properties pass through them too?