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2015-01-29 Unofficial Relay FAQ

Compilation of questions and answers about Relay from React.js Conf.

Disclaimer: I work on Relay at Facebook. Relay is a complex system on which we're iterating aggressively. I'll do my best here to provide accurate, useful answers, but the details are subject to change. I may also be wrong. Feedback and additional questions are welcome.

What is Relay?

Relay is a new framework from Facebook that provides data-fetching functionality for React applications. It was announced at React.js Conf (January 2015).

In my journey in figuring out the Ember pattern, this is my attempt at trying to create an Ember-only autocomplete field. There were a few outcomes I wanted out of this, a part from being the Ember-way:

Work with any data source
Easily templatable results
Use only Ember constructs

All are welcome to use this, I'm just after feedback at this point.

	var EmberApp = require('ember-cli/lib/broccoli/ember-app');
	var pickFiles = require('broccoli-static-compiler');
	var mergeTrees = require('broccoli-merge-trees');
	var vulcanize = require('broccoli-vulcanize');

	var app = new EmberApp();

	var polymerVulcanize = vulcanize('app', {
	input: 'elements.html',
	output: 'assets/vulcanized.html',