Category: Ember.js

Ember.js: The Perfect Framework for Web Applications

Ember.js is an opinionated frontend JavaScript framework that has been getting a lot of interest lately. This article will introduce some key concepts of the framework while building a simple application with it, in order to show a basic example of what it is capable of producing. Our example application is going to be...

How to Integrate jQuery Plugins into an Ember Application

With its ubiquity, jQuery still plays a vital role in the web development world. Its regular employment shouldn’t be a surprise especially when using a framework like Ember. This framework has components that are similar to jQuery plugins in that they are both designed to have a single responsibility in your proj...

Understanding Components in Ember 2

This article was peer reviewed by Edwin Reynoso and Nilson Jacques. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! Components are a vital part of an Ember application. They allow you to define your own, application-specific HTML tags and implement their behavior using Jav...

What’s New in Ember 2.0?

This article was peer reviewed by Stephan Max. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! Ember is an JavaScript framework, based on the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern and used for creating single page applications. Recently, version 2.0 of the framework was ...

Getting started with Ember and Ember CLI

Ember has gone through a lot of changes over the years. One of the biggest ones has been the introduction of the Ember CLI, a command line utility built for Ember. It combines several features including generators, minifiers, CSS preprocessor compilers, autoreload, and ES6 module loaders. This command line tool will he...

Building a Chat Application with SignalR

SignalR is an open source library for ASP.NET developers. It’s the equivalent of what Socket.IO is for Node.js (if you want, you can check out a comparison on Stack Overflow). SignalR can be used to provide real-time web features to your applications. Usually, if you are into Ember and JavaScript, you might be in...