Ember CLI

By Alex LaFroscia

@alexlafroscia

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How does it help?

  • Create and manage project structure
  • Handles building and bundling your assets through Broccoli
  • Helps generate new files with the proper boilerplate
  • Manage tests
  • Build for production

How to Get It

# Install through NPM

npm install -g ember-cli

# Optional: Install PhantomJS for testing

npm install -g phantomjs

Dependencies:

  • NPM
  • Bower


For Testing:

  • PhantomJS

Using Ember-CLI

# Create a new app

ember new test-app

# Start the development server
# Your project will be set up on port 4200 with live-reloading

ember server

# Create a route and template

ember generate route index

# Create an array controller

ember g controller --type=array

# Run the test suite

ember test               # CI Mode
ember test --server      # Browser mode

Differences from Ember without the CLI

ES6 Module Syntax

// app/routes/index.js

import Ember from 'ember';
import FooMixin from "./mixins/foo";

export default Ember.Route.extend(FooMixin, {

    model: function() {
        return ['red', 'yellow', 'blue'];
    }

});
  • The Ember-CLI uses the ES6 syntax for modules
  • "Ember" is not in the global namespace
  • Not a big deal because of the generators

Demo

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