Jupe's Law of Web Development

If it's hard...

you're doing it wrong!

And the Ember corollaries:

If you find yourself thinking, "#$*@$ Ember!"

you're probably doing it wrong!

If you find yourself thinking, "wouldn't it be great if ember did X?"

It probably does.

Refer to the docs: emberjs.com/api

And the guides: guides.emberjs.com

ember new my-app

• A development server with live reload.
• A build pipeline (template compilation, js & css minification, etc).
• ES2015 features via Babel.
• A testing framework.

Core Ember concepts

Router

Maps URLs to routes

Route

Loads models and templates

Controller

Presents model/state to the template

Model

Represents/persists data

Template

Presents data / loads components

Components

Reusable UI/behavior

Resources

• mjuniper.github.io/presentations/ds2017/ambitious-apps-building.html
• ember-cli
• emberjs.com
• Ember Twiddle
• Ember Igniter