The document discusses using the EmberJS framework to build JavaScript apps for Force.com instead of Visualforce. EmberJS offers advantages like Handlebars templates that update automatically, scaffolding to reduce development time, friendly APIs, routing, and being open source. It compares how Visualforce works by rendering pages on the server with HTML, JavaScript, and Java while Ember apps work client-side with routing, data binding, and templating. The document also provides examples of how to integrate Ember apps with Force.com using Visualforce, JavaScript remoting, action functions, and Apex.

1. Building Javascript Apps For Force.
com with EmberJS
Doug Friedman
@realdoug

2. About Me

3. About Me

4. Thesis:
Use EmberJS instead of Visualforce.
… Sometimes

5. “Client Side MVC
Frameworks”

6. Javascript Frameworks

7. Ember has many awesome skills:
▪ Handlebars
▪ Scaffolding
▪ Friendly APIs
▪ Easy AJAX support
▪ Routing
▪ Pure Javascript
▪ Open Source

8. Handlebars Templates
•Write less code w/ Ember's
Handlebars integrated templates
•Update automatically when the
underlying data changes.

9. Less time on scaffolding
•Common idioms
•Focus on what makes your app
unique, not reinventing the wheel.
•Just like Salesforce!

10. Friendly APIs
•“Designed with developer ergonomics
in mind”
•Easy to use = Save Time!

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• Routing
• Data Binding
• Templating

13. How to integrate w/ Force.com
• Visualforce
• Javascript Remoting
• Action Functions
• Apex
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14. Talk is cheap. Here are some examples.