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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 OAuth2 with Ember Simple Auth


OAuth2 specifies authorization flows for web applications. We can use it with Ember to secure our application and provide data to only those users that are authorized. In this recipe, we'll look at using OAuth2 with Ember Simple Auth (ESA), a robust add-on for Ember.

ESA will handle our client-side session and authentication and send the requests to the server. It's very customizable and extensible. Although it can be complicated, just like our last recipe, we'll create a protected students route that can be accessed by authorized users only.

Getting ready

For the purposes of this example, we'll need an OAuth2 server. Setting up an OAuth2 server is beyond the scope of this recipe. There are several OAuth2 libraries out there that you can use to set one up. I recommend the following:

How to do it...

  1. In a new Ember application, run the generator command...