How I learned to stop worrying and love the router

5 Tips on using the new router that shipped with ember v1.0.0-pre.4, presented to ember nyc meetup on 2013/01/24

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1. How I learned to stop worrying and love the Router 1
2. 5 Tips 2
3. Routes are Magic 3 # 1
4. Routes are Magic 4 # 1 IT ALL Starts with Templates
5. Routes are Magic 5 # 1 ALMOST ALL BOILERPLATE GOES AWAY As long as you Follow The Ember naming conventions
6. Routes are Magic 6 # 1 With Router v 1: 282 loc
7. Routes are Magic 7 # 1 Today: 32 loc
8. WTF Router? 8 # 2 its hard to know what’s going on WITHOUT LOG_TRANSITIONS = TRUE For Console.log output when the router transitions between States
9. WHERE AM I? 9 # 3 The router will tell you. It sets a currentPath property on you application controller
10. Template w.no Route? 10 # 4 Use the Handlebars {{render sidebar}} tag - IT WILL wrap Your template in a view/Controller Pair wit
11. Routes ARE STATES 11 # 5 but the ROUTER is not a STATE MANAGER (anymore)
12. Routes ARE STATES 12 # 5 Create Record on enter (via model Hook) Save: Register DidCreate CallbaCK TheN Commit DidCreate: Transition elsewhere EXIT: Rollback Unsaved Model
13. Questions 13 GitHub: @MIKEGRASSOTTI twitter: @mgrassotti