Dec 4, 2017

Ember core classes cheatsheet

#programming #frontend #ember.js

A brief cheatsheet on when to use each of Ember's core classes

  • Component

    • encapsulating a part of your web page
    • enhancing native DOM elements
    • capturing and responding to user input
  • Service

    • network calls that aren't in the route transition hierarchy (e.g. on user interaction)
    • stuffing data or state that is shared across the app
  • Controller

    • gluing together components and services
    • to stuff things when you don't have time to think about architecture
  • View

    • don't
  • Route

    • making network requests that are required by the page
  • Object

    • when you want {} or ES6 Class, but with all the get/set/computed goodness of Ember
  • Helper

    • formatting parts of what's displayed on the page
  • DS.Model

    • giving shape to network responses so they are more usable
  • DS.Store

    • making network requests for defined objects, so that they get auto-added and available
  • DS.Adapter

    • changing network address of defined objects when network calls are made
  • DS.Serializer

    • munging data to and from the server
  • DS.Transform

    • defining primitive types that you want to serialize network requests to and from

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