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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

Managing basic authentication


In any real-world Ember application, at some point, you'll need to deal with authentication. For example, users might need to send their credentials to identify themselves to the server, or authenticated users may need access to protected parts of the application.

An important aspect of authentication is protecting information based on the logged in user. This can be done by creating sessions with the use of tokens. In this recipe, we'll create a simple token-based authentication with an Express server. This will help us understand the basics. In the next section, we'll go over using OAuth2 with Ember Simple Auth.

How to do it...

  1. In a new application, generate these files:

    $ ember g service session
    $ ember g adapter application
    $ ember g controller login
    $ ember g model student name:string age:number
    $ ember g route login
    $ ember g route students
    $ ember g template index
    $ ember g server index
    $ npm install body-parser –save-dev
    

    This will generate all the scaffolding...