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Ember.js Cookbook

By : Erik Hanchett
Book Image

Ember.js Cookbook

By: Erik Hanchett

Overview of this book

Ember.js is an open source JavaScript framework that will make you more productive. It uses common idioms and practices, making it simple to create amazing single-page applications. It also lets you create code in a modular way using the latest JavaScript features. Not only that, it has a great set of APIs to get any task done. The Ember.js community is welcoming newcomers and is ready to help you when needed. This book provides in-depth explanations on how to use the Ember.js framework to take you from beginner to expert. You’ll start with some basic topics and by the end of the book, you’ll know everything you need to know to build a fully operational Ember application. We’ll begin by explaining key points on how to use the Ember.js framework and the associated tools. You’ll learn how to effectively use Ember CLI and how to create and deploy your application. We’ll take a close look at the Ember object model and templates by examining bindings and observers. We’ll then move onto Ember components, models, and Ember Data. We’ll show you examples on how to connect to RESTful databases. Next we’ll get to grips with testing with integration and acceptance tests using QUnit. We will conclude by covering authentication, services, and Ember add-ons. We’ll explore advanced topics such as services and initializers, and how to use them together to build real-time applications.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Ember.js Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Handling dynamic segments inside routes


Using dynamic segments and dynamic models is an important aspect of routes. The following recipe will go over how this can be accomplished.

Getting ready

Before we begin our recipes, we'll need to set up a plugin called Ember CLI Mirage. Ember plugins, also known as add-ons, make it easy to share common code between applications. The Ember CLI Mirage plugin makes it easy to create a mock server so that we can develop, test, and prototype our data. We won't cover too much of this add-on in this chapter. If you'd like more information, you can download it at https://github.com/samselikoff/ember-cli-mirage.

In this example, we'll use the Ember Data's RESTAdapter, not the new JSON API adapter.

  1. In a new project, run this installation command in the application folder:

    $ ember install [email protected]
    

    This will install version 0.1.11 of Ember CLI Mirage, Bower, and npm packages in the application. We'll be using this version for all the examples in the...