Welcome to Ember Spotlight, a new micro-series highlighting interesting and useful Ember Addons every Tuesday! For this first post, I’m going to introduce you to a little addon that’s been around for almost a year, Ember-Social! This project was initially sponsored by Plyfe, with core development from Luke Melia, Chris LoPresto, and Danielle Adams.

This addon brings you easy-to-use widgets for like/share activity on your pages. The components support features such as Facebook Like and Sharing via Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. As my Open Source Good Deed™ for the week, I went in to give the project a little boost, submitting PRs for upgrading them to the latest Ember, Ember-CLI, & dependencies, documenting the README, and introducing a new Social Widget which combines several of the components into a single component so you can easily bundle them onto a page together. You can even see it in action from the bottom of this post, so scroll down and give this page a like or share to test it out!

I’ve also integrated the project with ember-cli-github-pages, allowing them to deploy the dummy app as a gh-pages demo. Read more about how to do that for your own addon on EmberUp. Check out their new demo page below:

http://plyfe.github.io/ember-social/

If you’re looking to help out with a great addon, feel free to jump in and submit PRs of your own! As stated in the README, they love contributors, and a number of people have pitched in to bring them this far. You could add widgets for Google+, Pinterest, or other social sites, or help them address open issues. Be an Ember Citizen and help out here or somewhere else. It’s Open Source, after all! 

Read on to Ember Spotlight #2: Ember-World-Flags…