Ember.js Cookbook

Ember.js Cookbook

By : Erik Hanchett

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Ember.js Cookbook

By: Erik Hanchett

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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.

Ember.js Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Ember CLI Basics

Introduction

Installing Ember CLI

Creating your first project

Exploring pods and the folder layout

Asset compilation

Dependency management

Upgrading your project

Deployment

The Ember.Object Model

Introduction

Working with classes and instances

Working with computed properties

Working with Ember observers in Ember.js

Working with bindings

Using mixins

Using enumerables with arrays

Ember Templates

Introduction

Defining an application template

Working with conditionals in templates

Displaying a list of items

Binding with element attributes and classes

Working with HTML links inside templates

Handling HTML actions

Using template input helpers

Using development helpers

Ember Router

Introduction

Defining an application route

Setting up a route model

Handling dynamic segments inside routes

Defining routes with templates

Using redirection with routes

Working with asynchronous routing

Loading and error handling

Using query parameters

Ember Controllers

Introduction

Storing application properties

Handling actions in controllers

Working with transitions

Managing dependencies between controllers

Ember Components

Introduction

Using components in an application

Using events in components

Implementing actions in components

Passing properties to a component

Using yield with components

Ember Models and Ember Data

Introduction

Understanding the functionalities of Ember Data

Creating, reading, updating, and deleting records with Ember Data

Using fixtures

Customizing the adapter and serializer

Working with relationships

Logging, Debugging, and Testing

Introduction

Using Ember.Logger

Using Ember Inspector

Verifying deprecations and using advanced features of Ember Inspector

Using acceptance testing

Real-Life Tasks with Ember.js

Introduction

Using services with a component

Managing basic authentication

Using OAuth2 with Ember Simple Auth

Using Liquid Fire to create transitions

Working with HTML5 drag and drop

Learning Bootstrap with Ember.js

Awesome Tasks with Ember

Introduction

Using Ember validations

Using D3.js with Ember.js

Using Ember with Sockets

Using Ember with Firebase

Using server side rendering

Real-Time Web Applications

Introduction

Using dependency injection

Working with application initializers

Building a chat application

Creating and working with add-ons

Learning the Ember run loop

Index

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Creating your first project

In this recipe we'll create our first project.

How to do it...

We'll begin with the Ember CLI tool to create our first project.

Open the command prompt and type the following command:
```
$ ember new my-project
```
This will create a brand new project called my-project. The project structure will have everything that we need to get started.
To display this project, we can simply run the server command:
```
$ cd my-project
$ ember server
```
The ember server command will start up a web server on port 4200. You can access this port by opening http://localhost:4200. You should see the default Welcome to Ember website.
Tip
It is a good idea to keep the Ember server running while developing your application. Ember CLI uses a tool called LiveReload to refresh the web browser when changes are made. This can be useful to see how new changes are affecting your application. To run LiveReload, simply type ember server. This will start the server with LiveReload.
The server command defaults to port 4200. You can easily change this using the --port argument:
```
$ ember server --port 1234
```
This will start the server on port 1234 instead of the default 4200.
Another useful option is the --proxy argument. This will proxy all Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) requests to the given address. Let's say that we have a node server running on port 8080. We can run the server as follows:
```
$ ember server --proxy http://127.0.0.1:8080
```
For every Ajax request, Ember now will send these requests to the localhost at port 8080.
Tip
Keep in mind that as of Ember 2.0, Internet Explorer (IE) 8 support has been dropped. All modern web browsers and versions of IE after 8 work fine. If by chance IE 8 support is needed, Ember.js version 1.13 has extended browser support and should work with it.

How it works...

The ember server command creates a Node.js Express server. This server uses LiveReload and refreshes the web page whenever any changes are made. The server command accepts different arguments, including --proxy and --port.

There's more...

When running the server, you have access to tests. After you start the server, you'll have access to the QUnit interface. QUnit is a JavaScript unit testing framework. It is used to run your integration and acceptance tests. To access the interface, navigate your browser to http://localhost:4200/tests. This will show all your tests in the project. From here, you can see which tests passed and which failed. We will cover this in the later chapters:

Ember.js Cookbook

By : Erik Hanchett

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By: Erik Hanchett

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