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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

Customizing the adapter and serializer


Ember Data is very opinionated on how it wants to access data. The adapter has built-in assumptions on what the data looks like. We can use serializers and adapters to change these assumptions.

For this recipe, we'll be building on the student application that we created in the previous section.

Getting ready

We'll be using the same application from the previous recipe. We'll need to edit Ember CLI Mirage to handle a new namespace.

In the config.js file in the mirage folder, update the students route:

// app/mirage/config.js
export default function() {

    this.get('api/v1/students');
}

This will change the endpoint to api/v1/students instead of just /students.

How to do it...

  1. In the students application from the previous section, edit the application.js file in the adapters folder.

  2. Add a new namespace:

    // app/adapters/application.js
    import DS from 'ember-data';
    
    export default DS.RESTAdapter.extend({
        namespace: 'api/v1'
    });

    The namespace property is used...