ember-app-builder
Template for building a JavaScript Web application with Ember.js and Express
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Ecosystems:
JavaScript
Ember App Builder
Project goals:
- Author Web applications with simple tooling
- Minimistic approach to API development
- Map routes to db adapter, send JSON response
- End-to-end integration testing
- Test API request/response in server app
- Seed database for testing
- Use modules for developing on client and server
- Ember Test helpers used for integration testing
- Connect to live api during tests
- Tasks simply listed in Makefile
- E.g.
make db,make server,make test - Automate tasks w/ shell scripts, Bash / Javascript (node)
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make canaryupdate and replace Ember / Ember Data
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- E.g.
- Code quality encorced w/ jshint,
make lint - Client application build tools
- Compile Handlebars templates
- Manage dependencies using bower.json and package.json files
- Shell script copies source from bower dir to vendor
- Option to overwrite w/ canary versions using shell script
- Vim tooing, Use portkey.json for generators and ember.vim
Sample app:
Bloggr app (by Tilde.io) is setup in the client directory. The supporting post (resource) routes are in the server/routes directory. Seed database with shell script and a module server/seeds/posts.js
- Server runs on port 8888, client on 8000 (using CORS)
Directories
client
server
Setup
cd client && npm install && bower installcd server && npm install
Tasks / Commands
Client-side
- See client/Makefile
cd client, then watch, build and reload using make server
Server-side
- See the server/Makefile
cd server, make db, make server