1. Raúl Delgado & Andrés Lamilla
Front End Workshops
EmberJS General Overview
rdelgado@visual-engin.com
alamilla@visual-engin.com

2. A framework for creating ambitious
web applications.

3. ● Focus on ambitious web applications: applications that look and act
like desktop applications, but happen to be delivered via web
technologies
● More productive out of the box: provide a complete development
stack to make the developer productive immediately. (Ember CLI,
application structure, thousands addons).
● Stability without stagnation: backward compatibility is important and
can be maintained while still innovating and evolving the framework.
● Future web standards foresight: pioneer of many standards around
Javascript and the web. (promises, web components and ES6 syntax)
Philosophy

4. ● Routes: the state of an application is represented by a URL
● Models: data associated with the current state of the application
● Templates: HTMLBars templating language. (Handlebars
variation)
● Components: custom HTML tag
● Services: singleton objects to hold long-lived data such as user
sessions
Five essential Concepts

5. Big Picture

6. ● In December 2011, the SproutCore 2.0 framework was renamed to Ember.js
● The framework was created by Yehuda Katz, a member of the jQuery, Ruby
on Rails and SproutCore core teams
● Ember follows a six-week release cycle. Every six weeks a new release is
made available, and at the same time a beta for the next release is also
published
● Ember follows the semantic versioning convention. This means that breaking
changes are only introduced at major version numbers such as 1.0, 2.0 etc.
● Ember 2.0 was released August 13, 2015. Introduction of the Glimmer
rendering engine
● It follows the Convention over configuration design paradigm
● Stable release 2.4.3 / March 17, 2016
Facts

7. Ember cli

8. ● Strong conventional project structure
● Powerful addon system for extension
● Uses babel, which turns ES2015 module syntax into AMD (RequireJS-esq)
modules.
● Use QUnit and Ember QUnit by default. But, you are free to use other options
such as Mocha and Ember Mocha.
● Use Bower, for front-end dependencies and npm, for managing internal
dependencies
● Is configurable via a file named .ember-cli
Ember cli

9. Has support for:
● Handlebars
● HTMLBars
● Emblem
● LESS
● Sass
● Compass
● Stylus
● CoffeeScript
● EmberScript
● Minified JS & CSS
Ember cli

10. Commands:
● ember
● ember new <app-name>
● ember init
● ember build
● ember server
● ember generate <generator-name> <options>
● ember help generate
● ember destroy <generator-name> <options>
● ember test
● ember install <addon-name>
Ember cli

11. npm install -g ember-cli@2.4
ember new ember-quickstart
cd ember-quickstart
ember serve
Livereload server on http://localhost:49152
Serving on http://localhost:4200/
ember generate route scientists
installing route
create app/routes/scientists.js
create app/templates/scientists.hbs
updating router
add route scientists
installing route-test
create tests/unit/routes/scientists-test.js
ember build --env production
Ember cli

12. ember install ember-cli-sass
ember install ember-cli-bootstrap-sassy
mv app/styles/app.css app/styles/app.scss
echo '@import "bootstrap";' > app/styles/app.scss
Ember cli

13. Ember.object

14. Ember implements its own object system. The base object is Ember.Object.
All of the other objects in Ember extend Ember.Object.
Ember.Object can observe properties change.
This simple architectural decision is responsible for much of the consistency
across Ember. Every Ember object can observe the properties of other
objects, bind their properties to the properties of other objects, specify and
update computed properties, and much more.
This gives enormous power and flexibility !
Ember.object

15. Ember.object vs JS object

16. Defining new Ember Class:
Ember.object
Properties:
person1 = Person.extend({
firstName: “John”,
lastName: “McClaine”,
fullName(): {
let fullName = this.firstName + ‘ ’ + this.lastName;
alert(`my name is ${fullName} !`)
}
})
person1.get(‘firstName’) //John
person1.get(‘lastName’) //McClane
person1.fullName()
//my name is John Mclane !
Person = Ember.Object.extend()
user = Person.create()

17. Observers:
Ember.object
Person = Ember.Object.extend({
firstName: null,
lastName: null,
fullName: Ember.computed( 'firstName', 'lastName', function() {
return `${this.get('firstName')} ${this.get('lastName')}`;
}),
fullNameChanged: Ember.observer( 'fullName', () => {
// deal with the change
console.log(`fullName changed to: ${this.get('fullName')}`);
})
})
var person = Person.create({
firstName : Harry,
lastName : ‘Stamper’
})
person.get(‘fullName’) // Harry Stamper
person.set(‘firstName’, “Grace”)
// fullName changet to: Grace Stamper

18. Models

19. The models are objects that represent the underlying data that the application
presents the user. Different applications have very different models,
depending on what are the problems they are trying to solve.
You can create a model with the command:
This will generate:
Models
$ ember generate model person

20. Models
Defining attributes:
To define attributes to our model, we have four methods:
- Attr
- hasMany
- belonsTo
- normalizeModelName
attr:

21. Models
Relationship methods: hasMany & belongsTo:
One-to-one:
One-to-many:
Many-to-many:

22. Routing

23. Ember is URL-driven so it always starts in the
URL. In the example, our router has the
following definition:
Routing
An instance of the Route invoke the model() method where we turn the model.
Here it looks like a dummy object is returned:
Once model() has been returned, the
renderComponent() method call
ItemDisplayComponent model.

24. Not only push data paths. They can also
receive actions.
Actions are sent from components or other
routes, so that the logic transitions involving
URL or another route-level issue.
Routing

25. Routing
What’s going on here?
1. The Router parses the /items/2 URL and dispatches
control to a matching route: ItemRoute with a
parameter item_id=2
2. ItemRoute invokes its model() hook, in which our
app returns a model (Item with id=2) fetched via a
service
3. renderComponent() is then run to render the
component ItemDisplayComponent, passing it the
resolved model Item
4. ItemDisplayComponent is responsible for the user
interface: rendering/updating the DOM, and handling
browser events

26. The application route is entered when your app first boots up. Like other routes, it will load a
template with the same name (application in this case) by default. You should put your header,
footer, and any other decorative content here. All other routes will render their templates into the
application.hbs template's {{outlet}}.
This route is part of every application, so you don't need to specify it in your app/router.js.
Routing
The application route:
Index Routes:
At every level of nesting (including the top level),
Ember automatically provides a route for the /
path named index.

27. Templates

28. app/helpers/sum.js
export function sum(params) {
return params.reduce((a, b) => {
return a + b;
});
};
export default Ember.Helper.helper(sum);
Templates
<p>Total: {{sum 1 2 3}}</p>
{{sum (multiply 2 4) 2}}

29. <div>
{{if isFast "I am fast" "I am slow"}}
</div>
Templates
<div>
{{if isFast (if isFueled "zoooom")}}
</div>
{{#if isAtWork}}
Ship that code!
{{else if isReading}}
You can finish War and Peace eventually...
{{/if}}

30. {{#each people as |person|}}
Hello, {{person.name}}!
{{else}}
Sorry, nobody is here.
{{/each}}
Templates
<ul>
{{#each people as |person index|}}
<li>Hello, {{person.name}}! You're number {{index}} in line</li>
{{/each}}
</ul>

31. /app/components/store-categories.js
export default Ember.Component.extend({
willRender() {
this.set('categories', {
'Bourbons': ['Bulleit', 'Four Roses', 'Woodford Reserve'],
'Ryes': ['WhistlePig', 'High West']
});
}
});
Templates
/app/templates/components/store-categories.hbs
<ul>
{{#each-in categories as |category products|}}
<li>{{category}}
<ol>
{{#each products as |product|}}
<li>{{product}}</li>
{{/each}}
</ol>
</li>
{{/each-in}}
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Bourbons
<ol>
<li>Bulleit</li>
<li>Four Roses</li>
<li>Woodford Reserve</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Ryes
<ol>
<li>WhistlePig</li>
<li>High West</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ul>

32. /app/components/store-categories.js
export default Ember.Component.extend({
willRender() {
this.set('categories', {
'Bourbons': ['Bulleit', 'Four Roses', 'Woodford Reserve'],
'Ryes': ['WhistlePig', 'High West']
});
},
actions: {
addCategory(category) {
let categories = this.get('categories');
categories[category] = [ ];
// A manual re-render causes the DOM to be updated
this.rerender();
}
}
});
Templates

33. app/templates/components/single-post.hbs
<p><button {{action "select" post}}>✓</button> {{post.title}}</p>
Templates
app/components/single-post.js
export default Ember.Component.extend({
actions: {
select(post) {
console.log(post.get('title'));
}
}
});
app/templates/components/single-post.hbs
<p>
<button {{action "select" post on="mouseUp"}}>✓</button>
{{post.title}}
</p>

34. Components

35. ember generate component my-component-name
installing component
create app/components/my-component-name.js
create app/templates/components/my-component-name.hbs
installing component-test
create tests/integration/components/my-component-name-test.js
Components
app/templates/components/blog-post.hbs
<article class="blog-post">
<h1>{{title}}</h1>
<p>{{yield}}</p>
<p>Edit title: {{input type="text" value=title}}</p>
</article>
app/templates/index.hbs
{{#each model as |post|}}
{{#blog-post title=post.title}}
{{post.body}}
{{/blog-post}}
{{/each}}
app/routes/index.js
export default Ember.Route.extend({
model() {
return this.store.findAll('post');
}
});
https://ember-twiddle.com/7ff20a68a367df12a894294d837bc391?openFiles=controllers.application.js%2Cblog-post.template.
hbs

36. Controllers

37. A controller is a routable object meant to “decorate” a model with display
logic.
Controllers

38. A controller is a routable object meant to “decorate” a model with display
logic.
Controllers

39. Ember CLI Mirage

40. Mirage
Ember CLI Mirage is a client side mock server to develop and prototype
applications.
Fixtures and Factories
We now have a couple of choices. We can create data using fixtures, or
generate them through a factory. It's probably a good idea to use factories.
They can easily be added to your tests.

41. Fixtures
Mirage
Factories

42. More information in...
● https://guides.emberjs.com/v2.4.0/
● http://emberjs.com/api/
● https://ember-twiddle.com/
● http://emberigniter.com/
● http://yoember.com/