Ember 101 Screencasts: #1 Intro to Ember. Code: Dependencies The first thing you have to do is get all your dependecies on the page. Ember has two dependencies, jQuery and Handlebars. Here I've got them all as script tags, but you can use something like ember-tools or yeoman or your own build scripts to get the dependencies included. I'm also including bootstrap so things look half decent. Hello world Templates are usually your first concern when building an ember application. Var App = Ember.Application.create() That's it. Displaying data in a template So far, this demo is really dumb. First, we need some data for the template. Var App = Ember.Application.create();App.name = "Ember App"; And then update my template to display it: Binding data in a template In ember, any time you display data in the template like this, its automatically bound to that data.
Let's time how long a user has been on the page. <h1>{{App.name}}</h1><h2>{{App.secondsViewed}}</h2> Why I Chose Ember.js. Why I Chose Ember.js Clarification This article has been edited to reflect time spent with each framework and a few other relevant facts I have finally made the plunge to really dig into Ember.js. But, if you are familiar with the vast landscape of Javascript frameworks, you may wonder why I chose Ember.js. This isn't a light decision and Ember.js is thought to have quite a steep learning curve. However, I think that there are some reasons behind this that I will cover in a later post. So to start, let's look at the various frameworks and my own relations to them in my track to eventually set upon Ember.js. Backbone.js - 8 Months Experience When looking at front-end frameworks, many first happen upon Backbone.
Backbone is an incredible bit of kit for managing some light data binding but soon becomes hard to manage. Marionette.js - ~4 Months Experience Of you work on Backbone projects you quickly become tired of the boilerplate that is associated with Backbone apps. Batman.js Conclusion. Your First Ember.js App: A Comprehensive Tutorial. As modern web applications do more and more on the client-side (the fact itself that we now refer to them as “web applications” as opposed to “web sites” is quite telling), there has been rising interest in client-side frameworks. There are a lot of players in this field but for applications with lots of functionality and many moving parts, two of them stand out in particular: Angular.js and Ember.js. We already published a comprehensive [Angular.js tutorial][ so we’re going to focus on Ember.js in this post, in which we’ll build a simple Ember application to catalog your music collection.
You’ll be introduced to the framework’s main building blocks and get a glimpse into its design principles. Should you want to see the source code while reading, it’s available as rock-and-roll on Github. What are we going to build? Here’s what our Rock & Roll app is going to look like in its final version: Create an artist. Angular VS Knockout VS Ember.
Ember.js Tutorial. Building an App with Ember.js. Code.tutsplus. There are a lot of JavaScript libraries available, and most are really good at providing the traditional DOM-centric interactions that your typical websites need. But when it's time to build a manageable code base for a single-page app, that's where a whole suite of new frameworks come in to smooth things out. The old saying is true: "Use the best tool for the task. " It's not that traditional libraries like jQuery can't help you build desktop-like experiences, it's just not the use-case for it and is missing things like data-binding, event routing and state management. Sure, you can probably cobble together a bunch of plugins to achieve some of that functionality, but starting with a framework that's been specifically built from the ground up to tackle these specific problems, in my opinion, makes more sense.
The old saying is true: "Use the best tool for the task. " Before we continue, a heads up: Ember.js does a lot of magic for you. So let's kick this off. Core Concepts Setting up Ember. Ember.js Resources on EmberWatch. Yeoman/generator-ember. Prototyping an Ember.js App in 20 Minutes. Ember.js - A framework for creating ambitious web applications.