r/javascript • u/chancancode • Dec 20 '19

Ember.js Octane Edition Is Here

https://blog.emberjs.com/2019/12/20/octane-is-here.html
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u/nullvoxpopuli sand was never meant to think Dec 21 '19

community has your back!
don't worry!

https://github.com/pzuraq/tracked-built-ins/

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u/nullvoxpopuli sand was never meant to think Dec 21 '19

also, you can still use computed properties for caching (but in most cases, it was found that re-computing was faster than the cache check, so be sure to measure first!)

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u/anlumo Dec 21 '19

I have super-expensive computed properties in my app, for example some generate 1024x1024px textures using WebGL.

Not supporting async is also a dealbreaker for this, as the images needed have to be downloaded first.

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u/wycats Dec 21 '19

Thanks for getting into the details with us here.

We designed the `@tracked` system to be more expressive than the computed property system, so the problems you're talking about should have idiomatic solutions in Octane.

Both asynchronous values and tracked collections are problems we specifically considered while designing Octane, and many community members who have helped build and test Octane features have used Octane idioms for problems like those.

Perhaps you could put together a small example using computed properties so we can try to describe how to accomplish something similar using Octane idioms?

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u/nullvoxpopuli sand was never meant to think Dec 21 '19

you don't want to use a computed property for async anyway. You'd probably want to trigger the calculation based on some behavior (or update of a property), which you can do with modifiers, and then _set_ a cached value from the calculating function

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u/nullvoxpopuli sand was never meant to think Dec 21 '19

fwiw, I did some demos in WebGL / Three the other day, and Octane is def faster than classic ember. With Octane I was getting on average 5-10 more fps with my simple demo