https://github.com/pixelhandler/ember-app-builder

Template for building a JavaScript Web application with Ember.js and Express
https://github.com/pixelhandler/ember-app-builder

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Template for building a JavaScript Web application with Ember.js and Express

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pixelhandler/ember-app-builder
• Owner: pixelhandler
• Created: 2014-01-19T09:37:36.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-03-04T06:53:16.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-15T07:49:29.234Z (2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 719 KB
• Stars: 25
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# 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)

    * `make canary` update and replace Ember / Ember Data  

* 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](https://github.com/dsawardekar/ember.vim)

Sample app:

Bloggr app (by Tilde.io) is setup in the [client](client) directory. The supporting `post` (resource) routes are in the [server/routes](server/routes) directory. Seed database with shell script and a module [server/seeds/posts.js](server/seeds/posts.js)

* Server runs on port 8888, client on 8000 (using CORS)

## Directories

### [client](client)

* See: [client/README.md](client/README.md), [client/package.json](client/package.json),  [client/bower.json](client/bower.json)

### [server](server)

* See: [server/README.md](server/README.md), [server/package.json](server/package.json)

## Setup

* `cd client && npm install && bower install`

* `cd server && npm install`

## Tasks / Commands

### Client-side

* See [client/Makefile](client/Makefile)

`cd client`, then watch, build and reload using `make server`

### Server-side

* See the [server/Makefile](server/Makefile)

`cd server`, `make db`, `make server`

## Screencasts

 
Install tasks for ember-app-builder project on Vimeo.


 
Overview of end-to-end (integration) testing with ember-app-builder on Vimeo.