GlimmerX

🚨This is unstable, experimental code and should not be used in production.🚨

Quickstart

Generate a new project using the GlimmerX blueprint:

npx ember-cli new hello-glimmerx --blueprint @glimmerx/blueprint

Introduction

This project exists as a playground to explore lightweight APIs for authoring and rendering portable Glimmer components in any web application. The intent of these explorations is to eventually incorporate learnings back into Ember and Glimmer.

Components are defined as classes with an inline template:

// src/MyComponent.js
import Component from '@glimmerx/component';
import Button from './Button';

export default class MyComponent extends Component {
  static template = hbs`
      <h1>Hello world!</h1>
      <Button @title="Click me" />
    `;
}

As shown here with Button, child components can be imported with standard JavaScript syntax.

To render a component, use the renderComponent function:

// src/app.js
import { renderComponent } from '@glimmerx/core';
import MyComponent from './MyComponent';

renderComponent(MyComponent, document.getElementById('app'));

Installation

Install the @glimmerx/core and @glimmerx/component packages via Yarn or npm:

yarn add @glimmerx/core @glimmerx/component

You will also need to install a Babel preset that handles Glimmer templates and other language features, such as decorators and class fields:

yarn add -D @glimmerx/babel-preset

If using ESLint, you will also want to install / use the plugin provided, as the no-unused-vars core rule will fail without it

yarn add -D @glimmerx/eslint-plugin

For setup/configuration of the plugin, please view the Plugin Readme

API

@glimmerx/component

Component

import Component from '@glimmerx/component'

The Glimmer component base class. Does not have any interesting API to speak of itself.

hbs

import { hbs } from '@glimmerx/component'

A tagged template function used to specify component templates. The hbs template must be assigned to a static class field called template in order to be valid.

import Component, { hbs } from '@glimmerx/component';
export default class extends Component {
  static template = hbs`
      <button>Click me</button>
    `;
}

This example does not work:

import Component, { hbs } from '@glimmerx/component';
export default class extends Component {
  // Doesn't work!
  //   * Property is not called `template`
  //   * Property is not static
  myTemplate = hbs`
      <button>Click me</button>
    `;
}

tracked

import { tracked } from '@glimmerx/component'

Decorator that marks a class property as tracked. For more information, see Change Tracking with Tracked Properties.

import Component, { hbs, tracked } from '@glimmerx/component';
export default class extends Component {
  static template = hbs`{{this.count}}`;

  @tracked count = 0;

  constructor() {
    super(...arguments);
    setInterval(() => {
      this.count++;
    }, 1000);
  }
}

@glimmerx/helper

helper

Wrapper function to tag functions as helpers

import { helper } from @glimmerx/helper

import Component, { hbs } from '@glimmerx/component';
import { helper } from '@glimmerx/helper';

const myHelper = helper(([name], { greeting }) => {
  return `${greeting} ${name}`;
});

export default class extends Component {
  static template = hbs`
      {{myHelper "foo" greeting="Hello"}}
    `;
}

@glimmerx/service

service

import { service } from '@glimmerx/service';

Decorator to inject services into a component.

import Component, { hbs } from '@glimmerx/component';
import { service } from '@glimmerx/service';
export default class extends Component {
  static template = hbs`
        {{this.currentLocale}}
      `;
  @service locale;
  get currentLocale() {
    return this.locale.currentLocale;
  }
}

@glimmerx/modifier

on

import { on } from '@glimmerx/modifier'

On modifier that allows components to add listeners for an dom event on an element

import Component, { hbs } from '@glimmerx/component';
import { on } from '@glimmerx/modifier';
export default class extends Component {
  static template = hbs`
        <button {{on "click" this.buttonClicked}}>Click Me!</button>
      `;

  buttonClicked() {
    console.log('The Button is clicked');
  }
}

action

import { action } from '@glimmerx/modifier'

A decorator to bind a function to a component instance. This is required to set the this scope for a passed in function to any modifier.

import Component, { hbs, tracked } from '@glimmerx/component';
import { on, action } from '@glimmerx/modifier';
export default class extends Component {
  static template = hbs`
        <button {{on "click" this.incrementCounter}}>Counter: {{this.count}}</button>
      `;
  @tracked count = 1;

  @action
  incrementCounter() {
    this.count++;
  }
}

@glimmerx/core

renderComponent

import { renderComponent } from '@glimmerx/core'

Renders a component into the DOM. The first argument is a Glimmer component class and the second argument is the target DOM element to render it into.

import { renderComponent } from '@glimmerx/core';
import MyComponent from './MyComponent';

renderComponent(MyComponent, document.getElementById('app'));

Renders a component with arguments passed to the component. First argument is the Glimmer Component, the second argument is an object of render options, with the target DOM element and the arguments to pass to the component to render.

import { renderComponent } from '@glimmerx/core';
import Component, { hbs } from '@glimmerx/component';

class OtherComponent extends Component {
  static template = hbs`<h1>{{@say}}</h1>`;
}

renderComponent(MyComponent, {
  element: document.getElementById('app'),
  args: {
    say: 'Hello World',
  },
});

Service implementations for injection in components/helpers can be provided when calling renderComponent.

import { renderComponent } from '@glimmerx/core';
import LocaleService from './services/LocaleService';
renderComponent(MyComponent, {
  element: document.getElementById('app'),
  services: {
    locale: new LocaleService('en_US'),
  },
});

@glimmerx/storybook

storiesOf

import { storiesOf } from '@glimmerx/storybook'

Integrates Storybook into your host GlimmerJs application.

import { storiesOf } from '@glimmerx/storybook';
import SampleComponent from '../src/SampleComponent';

storiesOf('Sample', module).add('SampleComponent', () => hbs`<SampleComponent />`);

For more details refer README.

Experimental Features

Ember/Glimmer Interop

The @glimmerx packages are compatible with both Ember and Glimmer applications, with some notable caveats:

• Custom helpers are not supported using helper from @glimmerx/helper
• Plain functions do not work as helpers or modifiers in Ember applications
• Ember applications do not support template imports. As such, even if you import a component to use in your app, you must also export that component in the resolvable location for Ember apps.

This feature is highly experimental, and it is not recommended to build production applications or addons using it currently. You can see an example of this feature in use in the examples/basic-addon Ember addon, which can be used in both Ember and Glimmer applications.

Development

Setup

yarn install

Example Application

For inspiration, see the example application source code. To run the sample application, run yarn start and visit http://localhost:8080.

Tests

Run once:

yarn test

For TDD:

yarn test:watch

Tests are run via testem (configured in testem.json) and built with webpack (configured in webpack.config.js).

Storybook

To test Storybook changes on example app components run:

yarn storybook this will auto open Storybook app