HTMLBars support has landed in Ember’s canary channel thanks to the tireless work of the HTMLBars team. Make sure to chat them up at EmberConf (you are going right?!?!) for some war stories.

We are nearing the end of the 1.9 beta cycle (aiming for 2014-12-06) which means we will be making the go / no-go decision on all pending features in Canary when we branch for the next beta cycle. Clearly, we would all love to have 1.10 use HTMLBars.

In order to enable the HTMLBars feature flag in the 1.10 betas (shipping around 2014-12-09), we need help confirming that no major issues exist. This is where you come in!

Using Canary Builds with Ember CLI

Upgrading to the canary channel with Ember CLI is very straightforward.

Update Bower

Run the following:

rm -rf bower_components bower install --save handlebars#~2.0.0 bower install --save ember#canary bower install

Bower also prompts you to confirm various “resolutions” that it is unsure of. Make sure you pick ember#canary and Handlebars 2.0 if prompted.

Update NPM Dependencies

Run the following:

npm uninstall --save-dev broccoli-ember-hbs-template-compiler npm install --save-dev ember-cli-htmlbars

Summary

Now we have successfully updated to the latest canary builds of Ember. Next up: HTMLBars.

Using HTMLBars with Ember CLI

Enabling HTMLBars is as simple as adding the following to your config/environment.js (under EmberENV.FEATURES section):

EmberENV: { FEATURES: { 'ember-htmlbars': true } },

Now restart any running ember serve commands you have and you should be running with HTMLBars.

Report Issues

This part is critical: Please report any issues at GitHub, especially regressions from 1.8 or 1.9-beta. If your business has certain browser requirements (IE8 for example) testing on those edge-case platforms today will help us resolve issues in time for 1.10.