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

Sample app:

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

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

Directories

client

• See: client/README.md, client/package.json, client/bower.json

server

• See: server/README.md, server/package.json

Setup

• cd client && npm install && bower install
• cd server && npm install

Tasks / Commands

Client-side

• See client/Makefile

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

Server-side

• See the 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.