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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

Creating and working with add-ons


Ember has a common way of sharing code using something called Ember Addons (also known as add-ons). Ember Addons make it easy to distribute reusable libraries with other applications. Anyone can create add-ons. You can publish them to NPM or to your own private Git repository.

Keep in mind that you can also use Bower to install frontend dependencies. This is done through the Bower package manager. Take a look at Chapter 1, Ember CLI Basics for more information on how to do this.

In this recipe, we'll take our chat program from the last section and make it an add-on.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new add-on called sockjs-chat. Generate these files:

    $ ember addon sockjs-chat
    $ cd sockjs-chat
    $ ember g component sockjs-chat
    $ ember g service sockjs
    $ ember g blueprint sockjs-chat
    $ npm install ember-cli-htmlbars --save
    

    The ember addon command generates the folder structure for the add-on. We'll discuss the folder structure in more detail later. The blueprint command...