I'm relatively new to Ember, so I'm still poking around and trying to figure things out, ya know?

Last week, I worked on an issue related to shopping cart totals.

Screenshot to illustrate:

• The price with the line-through, in the image below, is the value total of the cart before any discounts are added.
• The price that is bold is the cart total after discounts
• In this image, there are no discounts, therefore both values are the same

Goal:

Only show the value total if there are actually savings/discounts. i.e. if value total !== cart total

Aside:

Ember actually has a concat helper that was introduced in Ember 1.13.0, but this information was not useful to me because we are on Ember 1.12.0.

Solution:

After Googling and asking the friendly people in the Ember Slack Community, I ended up making a little concat helper based on the actual Ember concat helper

// app/helpers/compare-args.js

import Ember from 'ember';

/*
 * Usage in template:
 * {{#if (compare-args param1 param2}}
 */
const compareArgs = (params) => params[0] !== params[1];

export default Ember.HTMLBars.makeBoundHelper(compareArgs);

Note: The helper must have at least one dash in the filename to prevent clashes with current or future HTML element names.

While this is a sub-optimal workaround that will have to re-factored when the time comes to upgrade our Ember version, I'm going to just leave this here.

And lastly, I have to find out where I read about opting for a component over a helper due to Ember moving away from view helpers.

That is all.