Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar

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Post by perokreco » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 9:05 PM UTC

tomdale wrote: post #10

tomdale wrote: post #2

Congratulations to the guys at Addepar on releasing this. They have been contributing an amazing amount of stuff to the Ember.js community—not least of which is helping us build Ember Data. Probably my favorite thing about Ember is that it isn't built by academics toiling away in an ivory tower; it's driven by real-world problems that web developers are facing. Our goal is to provide a set of tools that allow develop…

As a side note: if you're interested in this kind of stuff, we'd love to see you at the first Ember Camp, next February in San Francisco. You can even meet the guys who wrote this. There are still some tickets available here: https://tito.io/tilde/ember-camp-2013

You can also come meet us at our office in Mountain View. We have food and beer and can show you some cool Ember things we are working on(we are also constantly hiring, my email is in the profile).

Re: Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar

#12

Post by pragone » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 9:15 PM UTC

This doesn't work quite well - if I scroll fast enough, my browser (Chrome) thinks I've finished scrolling and goes back to scrolling the screen. As a fan of scanning through data extremely quickly, it's a very annoying interface.

Re: Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar

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Post by swah » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 9:15 PM UTC

The fastest table I've seen was this http://ukijs.org/examples/core-examples/table/

Re: Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar

#14

Post by clueless » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 9:22 PM UTC

julian37 wrote: post #4

This looks great. Can anybody recommend a similar library (i.e. lazy-rendering table component) that either doesn't depend on a JS framework or uses backbone.js? I know Slickgrid but find it a bit too clunky on the whole, and re-styling it is awkward since its DOM isn't exactly straightforward.

Would this be close to what you are looking for: http://datatables.net/blog/Introducing_Scroller_-_Virtual_Sc...

Re: Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar

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Post by Cieplak » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 9:23 PM UTC

To copy and paste from Excel/LibreOffice Calc to an html spreadsheet, I found this quite helpful:

http://labs.nereo.fr/slick.html

Re: Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar

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Post by wheaties » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 9:26 PM UTC

jwoah12 wrote: post #7

julian37 wrote: post #4

This looks great. Can anybody recommend a similar library (i.e. lazy-rendering table component) that either doesn't depend on a JS framework or uses backbone.js? I know Slickgrid but find it a bit too clunky on the whole, and re-styling it is awkward since its DOM isn't exactly straightforward.

Coincidentally, I just finished a similar table using backbone. It isn't nearly as feature-rich, but it has sortable, movable, resizable columns, and a mechanism for adding filter fields. It was built for a specific purpose in an existing project, but I was actually going to work on turning it into a standalone library and writing a blog piece on it after work today.

Please do so, the more the merrier. I'll read it.

Re: Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar

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Post by outside1234 » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 9:33 PM UTC

Very cool - any chance of getting a blog post about how you structured the lazy rendering part within Ember.JS? I have an application where I need to do something similar.

Re: Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar

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Post by julian37 » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 9:34 PM UTC

clueless wrote: post #14

julian37 wrote: post #4

This looks great. Can anybody recommend a similar library (i.e. lazy-rendering table component) that either doesn't depend on a JS framework or uses backbone.js? I know Slickgrid but find it a bit too clunky on the whole, and re-styling it is awkward since its DOM isn't exactly straightforward.

Would this be close to what you are looking for: http://datatables.net/blog/Introducing_Scroller_-_Virtual_Sc...

Ah yes, I've looked at Datatables before. I think it doesn't allow plugging in arbitrary, lazy, client-side data sources though, can anybody confirm this? If so, that's a pretty big hole in its API and a showstopper for me.

At any rate, thanks for the heads up.

Re: Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar

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Post by jongleberry » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 9:35 PM UTC

500kb transferred? 2 seconds to load all the CSS and JS files? 4.5 seconds to load everything?

Way too much overhead for a static page, IMO.

Re: Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar

#20

Post by ynniv » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 9:37 PM UTC

A feature rich, reliable table view in SproutCore (from which Ember was forked) has been a highly requested feature for at least 4 years. I'm glad that someone has finally done so, but I am also disappointed that it was so difficult.