Please Note that from 1.11.0 onwards, this.route is only used instead of this.resource. Source: http://guides.emberjs.com/v1.11.0/routing/defining-your-routes/* Have a look at this post for a detailed explanation. This is a rough summary of this post (i have modified a bit): Ever since the change to resource and route a lot of people are confused about the meaning … Read more
Ember.View An Ember.View is currently limited to the tags that are created for you by the W3C. But if you wanted to define your own application-specific HTML tags and then implement their behavior using JavaScript? You can’t do this actually with a Ember.View. Ember.Component That’s exactly what components let you do. In fact, it’s such … Read more
Few well integrated tools to establish accurate code coverage for ember-cli apps exist. (something like Istanbul for everything in app/) We ended up avoiding ember-cli-blanket and writing a rudimentary istanbul 78 integration with testem. Basically, it calls the istanbul cli against the single JS file output by ember build. Imprecise but consistent. We’ve used in … Read more
Simple answers for simple questions: {{#unless isValid}} {{/unless}} Also keep in mind that you can insert an {{else}} in between an {{#if}} or {{#unless}} and the closing tag.
HTTP is stateless. In order to authorize you, you have to “sign” every single request you’re sending to server. Token authentication A request to the server is signed by a “token” – usually it means setting specific HTTP headers, however, they can be sent in any part of the HTTP request (POST body, etc.) Pros: … Read more
There is a nice run down/comparison of various MVx JS frameworks here http://codebrief.com/2012/01/the-top-10-javascript-mvc-frameworks-reviewed/ it’s followed by a good discussion in the comments too. I think I’ve seen Gordon (who wrote it) on here so maybe you’ll get a reply from him. I’d say if you are looking to learn this style of application development then … Read more
This question has been addressed, in a slightly different form, at length, here: RESTful Authentication But this addresses it from the server-side. Let’s look at this from the client-side. Before we do that, though, there’s an important prelude: Javascript Crypto is Hopeless Matasano’s article on this is famous, but the lessons contained therein are pretty … Read more
At Boundless, we’ve gone deep with option #2 and rolled it out to thousands of students. Our server is a JSON REST API (Scala + MongoDB), and all of our client code is served straight out of CloudFront (ie: www.boundless.com is just an alias for CloudFront). Pros: Cutting-edge/exciting A lot of bang for your buck: … Read more