Ember.js
Hacker ApprovedRanked 9 of 21 JavaScript frameworks by recommenders
Free JavaScript framework people value for upgrades with few breaking changes, LTS releases and maintainable apps. Critics most often cite a complex API and hard hiring.
Free JavaScript framework people value for upgrades with few breaking changes, LTS releases and maintainable apps. Critics most often cite a complex API and hard hiring.
35 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 28
- criticize it
- 7
- approval share
- 80%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 28 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Upgrades with few breaking changes
“It looks like this is the framework you use if you want to incrementally improve stuff without having to go through radical shifts between versions.”
Comment from 30 May 2026 in “Ember.js 7.0” “It's also a true drop-in replacement.”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Ember – A modern Redis drop-in replacement built in Rust” Architecture differs from mainstream frameworks
“it represents approaches to frontend web dev that are very different from the standard”
Comment from 30 May 2026 in “Ember.js 7.0” “There are a lot of good architectural decisions in there that I miss when I'm in React”
Comment from 30 May 2026 in “Ember.js 7.0” Regular releases and LTS versions
“Ember's actively maintained and improved with 6 week release cycles and LTS versions.”
Comment from 30 May 2026 in “Ember.js 7.0” “made for really maintainable apps in the long run”
Comment from 28 Sep 2026 in “Ember-1” Productive with many built-in features
“Outperforms in many areas and has more out of the box features like proto storage”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)” “the productivity once you got it was immense”
Comment from 28 Sep 2026 in “Ember-1”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Seen as niche or legacy
“literally nobody except billion dollar companies use this”
Comment from 30 May 2026 in “Ember.js 7.0” “basically CakePHP at this point. A relic of days gone by.”
Comment from 30 May 2026 in “Ember.js 7.0”
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See all 21 JavaScript frameworks, rankedWhat people said
27 of the 37 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“made for really maintainable apps in the long run”
“the productivity once you got it was immense”
“Ember isn't picked yet. In planning, Opus 5.5 wins under the planning weights.”
“These will also be useful when I’m traveling away from my screen at very high speeds.”
“This looks nice, I will try it out.”
“it does look good and distinguishable”
“It feels sci-fi, but is actually practical too.”
“it's lightweight, it does not require playwright at all”
“I added login support day one, it took a while to be reviewed but has now been merged.”
“+1 for the accessibility features, great job!”
“Got to give you kudos for the Accessibility enablement though”
“I am thrilled anytime an app doesn't rely on colour cues alone”
“For people who are interested in this space should very much read EMBER. They make digestable, data rich reporting.”
“ember was well made but the api was just way too complex”
“There are a lot of good architectural decisions in there that I miss when I'm in React”
“Ember's actively maintained and improved with 6 week release cycles and LTS versions.”
“hiring was a pain and ecosystem packages were often out of date”
“It looks like this is the framework you use if you want to incrementally improve stuff without having to go through radical shifts between versions.”
“basically CakePHP at this point. A relic of days gone by.”
“literally nobody except billion dollar companies use this”
“it represents approaches to frontend web dev that are very different from the standard”
“each had its own flavour of incidental complexity”
“Me ember apps? Next to them.”
“Outperforms in many areas and has more out of the box features like proto storage”
“I just wanted my own interpretation of an RSS Reader app”
“It's also a true drop-in replacement.”
“I still think they could've done it without leaving semver”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.