Ember User Activity

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http://jhawk.co/ember-user-activity

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1. Ember User Activity Ember User Activity Jordan Hawker
2. The Problem • Tracking user interactions globally throughout your application ◦ This is relatively easy on a per-component basis, and could be passed to a service ◦ However, waiting for browser events to bubble up through Ember is slow (ish) • Deciding whether or not a user is idle ◦ Lots of different ways a user can interact with your application ◦ Many third-party jQuery (or vanilla JS) libraries, none well-integrated with Ember
3. A Solution Ember-User-Activity: http://jhawk.co/ember-user-activity • Capture events before bubbling occurs • Provide a service as an event bus for subscribers • Use these events to determine if a user is idle Demo: http://jhawk.co/ember-user-activity-demo
4. Usage
5. What You Should Know • Original implementation was greedy and naive • v0.2.0 introduces several performance improvements ◦ requestAnimationFrame for capturing scroll activity ◦ Event throttling • Many opportunities to improve! ◦ Mobile-specific events ◦ Browser resizing ◦ activeElement ◦ RAF sleep mode + buffer ◦ More component mixins
6. JordanHawker AxleHellfire elwayman02 www.JordanHawker.com Slides: jhawk.co/eua-lightning-slides