ember-magic-man

ember-magic-man

Ember Magic Man is a lightweight data persistence library for Ember.js. Its API is inspired by Ember Data, but it has no magic and requires the developer to implement all persistence logic.

Because magic seems great, until it messes you up.

Installation

• ember install:addon ember-magic-man

Usage

The Store

In Ember Magic Man, the store is responsible for managing the lifecycle of your models. Every time you need a model or a collection of models, you'll ask the store for it.

To create a store, you don't need to do anything. Just by loading the Ember Magic Man library, all of the routes, controllers, and models in your application will get a new store property. This property is an instance of ember-magic-man/store that will be shared across all of the routes, controllers, and models in your app.

Models

// app/models/bookmark.js
import Model from 'ember-magic-man/model';

export default Model.extend({
});

Adapters

One thing you should know is that Ember Magic Man uses an object called an adapter to know how to talk to your server.

An adapter is just an object that knows how to translate requests from Ember Magic Man into requests on your server. For example, if I ask the Ember Magic Man store for a record of type person with an ID of 123, the adapter translates that into an XHR request to (for example) api.example.com/v3/person/123.json.

Fetching a Collection of Models

From your route or controller:

this.store.findAll('blogPost');

Fetching a Single Model

this.store.find('blogPost', 123);

Development

• git clone this repository
• npm install
• bower install
• ember server
• Visit your app at http://localhost:4200.

Running Tests

• ember test
• ember test --server

Building

• ember build

For more information on using ember-cli, visit http://www.ember-cli.com/.