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Ember.js Cookbook

By : Erik Hanchett
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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

Using events in components


When creating components, you can attach events to them. Let's take a look at an example of this.

How to do it...

  1. In a new project, generate a new component called student-info:

    $ ember g component student-info
    

    This will generate a component file in the component directory and the templates/components folder.

  2. Edit the app/components/student-info.js file. Add a new click event:

    // app/components/student-info.js
    import Ember from 'ember';
    
    const {$}=  Ember
    export default Ember.Component.extend({
        click() {
          $('html').fadeToggle( 'slow', 'linear');
          $('html').delay(250).fadeIn();
        }
    });

    The first thing that you'll notice in this example is that we are using the ES2015 destructuring assignment. The destructuring assignment syntax extracts data from arrays or objects. Instead of typing Ember.$ everywhere, I can just type $.

    Ember CLI by default has jQuery installed. We are using the jQuery syntax to fade the HTML document and fade it back after the component...