Ember Octane Workshop: Shlack

This is the project used for the Mike North's Ember Octane course, where we build a chat app together step-by-step

Prerequisites

You will need the following things properly installed on your computer.

• Git
• Node.js
• Yarn
• Ember CLI
• Brave, Firefox or Chrome

Getting Set Up

There are a few things you need to ensure you have installed, in order to be ready for this course.

Node.js

You’ll need a relatively recent version (v10.0 or newer ideally) of Node.js installed. On OS X, a great way of doing this without disturbing your existing dev environment is to install NVM. Installation instructions are here.

You’ll know everything is set up properly when you can run

nvm --version # might look like "0.34.0"
node --version # might look like "v10.15.3"

Ember-CLI

Ember-CLI is the official Ember.js build tool. It handles things like:

• Running a development web server
• Running tests
• Code generation
• Compiling static assets

We can install ember-cli globally by running

npm install -g ember-cli

Now you should be able to run

ember --version

and see something like

ember-cli: 3.10.0
node: 11.6.0
os: darwin x64

Visual Studio Code

Particularly if you’ve never tried it before, you should install Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Some fantastic extensions that I use regularly include

• ESlint
• Ember-CLI in Visual Studio Code
• Ember Language Server

Clone the Project

git clone git@github.com:FrontendMasters/ember-octane.git shlack

Install dependencies

cd shlack
yarn install

Start the development server

ember serve

• Visit your app at http://localhost:4200
• Visit your tests at http://localhost:4200/tests
• Your app runs on localhost :4200 by default. You can customize this via --port <port-number>

Code Generators

Make use of the many built-in Ember-CLI generators to get files that follow the latest practices (with matching tests_. To see available generators, run ember help generate

Running Tests

• ember test
• ember test --server

Linting

• yarn lint:hbs
• yarn lint:js
• yarn lint:js --fix

Building

• ember build (development)
• ember build --environment production (production)

Further Reading / Useful Links

• ember.js
• Development Browser Extensions
  • ember inspector for chrome
  • ember inspector for firefox

How this starting point was created

We could create a new Ember app by running the following command (you don't need to run this):

ember new <app-name>

This would create a project based on the default Ember.js app blueprint. If we want to create an Ember Octane app, we can use the official Ember Octane blueprint instead by running:

ember new -b @ember/octane-app-blueprint <app-name>

Beyond this, all I've done is...

Installed a few packages like

• ember-cli-tailwind
• ember-on-modifier
• ember-cli-pretender

ember install ember-cli-tailwind ember-on-modifier ember-cli-pretender

Added the files in the server folder, and the db.json to provide a development JSON API, and created the notes folder and markdown files inside it.

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