What's in an Ember element? For a long time, the answer was two-way data binding, observers, and an obscured DOM, along with the challenges and bugs that went with it. Today, we can move beyond the {{view “select”}} helper and render this common UI element using native DOM and one-way data flow. Through the lens of the select element, both as standalone code and a re-usable component, we’ll learn how and why to use good Ember patterns like data-down, actions up (DDAU), plus some handy new Ember features like closure actions and the mut and {{get}} helpers.