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One of the ways that Ember releases guarantee stability is by following Semantic Versioning (SemVer). For the Ember project this means that any feature that is to be removed must first be deprecated, and only removed when a major version is released. It also means that new features are introduced in a backwards compatible way.

To give the project a path forward when a breaking change is mandatory, we've released the @ember/optional-features addon.

This addon does nothing by default, but provides a command-line interface to enable and disable breaking changes in Ember.

Installation

To get started with optional features, you must install the addon:

ember install @ember/optional-features

This will make three new commands available to Ember CLI within your project, feature:list, feature:enable, and feature:disable.

Listing features

The optional features available to your project will depend on the Ember version your project is using.

To see which optional features are available, you can run the following command:

$ ember feature:list
Usage:

  To list all available features, run ember feature:list.
  To enable a feature, run ember feature:enable some-feature.
  To disable a feature, run ember feature:disable some-feature.

Available features:

  application-template-wrapper (Default: true)
    Wrap the top-level application template (application.hbs) with a `<div class="ember-view">` element.
    More information: https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/pull/280

  jquery-integration (Default: true)
    Adds jQuery to the Ember application.
    More information: https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/pull/294

Features

Once you see a feature that you would like to toggle for your project you can run one of two commands, ember feature:enable <feature> and ember feature:disable <feature>.

Let us disable jquery-integration to see what happens:

$ ember feature:disable jquery-integration
Disabled jquery-integration. Be sure to commit config/optional-features.json to source control!

As we can see from the warning, @ember/optional-features has created a file in config/optional-features.json to store the configuration for your project. We commit it to our repository and we are off to the races!

jquery-integration

The Ember framework comes by default with jQuery integration. It is used for event handling, and to provide some APIs like this.$() in components.

With the release of ember-source v3.4.0, an optional feature flag was introduced that allows users to opt out of jQuery. To enable it, run the following command after setting up @ember/optional-features:

ember feature:disable jquery-integration

This will remove jQuery from your vendor.js bundle and disable any use of jQuery in Ember itself. Now your app will be about 30KB lighter!

Caveats

Without jQuery, any code that still relies on it will break, especially the following usages:

  • this.$() in components
  • jQuery or $ directly as a global, through Ember.$() or by importing it (import jQuery from jquery;)
  • global acceptance test helpers like find() or click()
  • this.$() in component tests

Note that this also applies to all addons that your app uses, so make sure they support being used without jQuery.

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