ember-cli

What is ember-cli?

Ember CLI is the command line interface for managing and developing Ember.js applications. It provides a robust set of tools for scaffolding, building, testing, and deploying Ember.js applications.

What are ember-cli's main functionalities?

Project Creation

This command creates a new Ember.js application with the name 'my-app'. It sets up the project structure, installs dependencies, and configures the build system.

ember new my-app

Generating Blueprints

This command generates a new component called 'my-component'. Blueprints are templates for generating various parts of an Ember.js application, such as components, routes, and services.

ember generate component my-component

Running the Development Server

This command starts a local development server, allowing you to preview your application in the browser. It also watches for file changes and automatically reloads the application.

ember serve

Building the Application

This command builds the Ember.js application for production. It optimizes the assets and outputs them to the 'dist' directory, ready for deployment.

ember build --environment production

Running Tests

This command runs the application's test suite. Ember CLI supports both unit and integration tests, and it can be configured to run tests in different environments.

ember test

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README

ember-cli

An ember command line utility.

Supports node 0.10.5 and npm 1.4.6.

Community

• irc: #ember-cli on freenode
• issues: ember-cli/issues
• website: iamstef.net/ember-cli

Warning

Although potentially exciting, this is still really a WIP, use at your own risk.

Project Elements

Additional components of this project which are used runtime in your application:

• ember-jj-abrams-resolver
• loader
• ember-cli-shims
• ember-load-initializers

Development Hints

Working with master

git clone https://github.com/stefanpenner/ember-cli.git
cd ember-cli
npm link

npm link is very similar to npm install -g except that instead of downloading the package from the repo the just cloned ember-cli/ folder becomes the global package. Any changes to the files in the ember-cli/ folder will immediatly affect the global ember-cli package.

Now you can use ember-cli via the command line:

ember new foo
cd foo
npm link ember-cli
ember server

npm link ember-cli is needed because by default the globally installed ember-cli just loads the local ember-cli from the project. npm link ember-cli symlinks the global ember-cli package to the local ember-cli package. Now the ember-cli you cloned before is in three places: The folder you cloned it into, npm's folder where it stores global packages and the ember-cli project you just created.

Please read the official npm-link documentation and the npm-link cheatsheet for more information.

Working with the tests

Use npm run-script autotest to run the tests after every file change (Runs only fast tests). Use npm test to run them once.

To exclude a test or test suite append a .skip to it() or describe() respectively (e.g. it.skip(...)). To focus on a certain test or test suite append .only.

Please read the official mocha documentation for more information.

License

ember-cli is MIT Licensed.