Ember.js Framework

JSIST 2014
By : Sean Yu
http://jsist.org

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1. Building Paraşüt with Ember.js A Financial Management App for Turkish SMEs twitter.com/parasutcom
2. Modern SaaS for Turkey • Turkish small businesses need innovation & information • 3mm SMEs (99% of market) with no access to easy, affordable finance management software • Must create intuitive, beautiful, fun yet sophisticated, enterprise-ready application • Must do so in “lean startup” way
3. Invoices Expenses Inventory Contacts Tracking Printing Employees Tracking Import/ Export Reports Mobile Portal Supplier/ Vendor Email e-invoice Expense report Invites as viral channel Invites as viral channel Government 3rd Parties Banks API Users (roles) Accounting Automation
7. Andaç Türkmen ! CTO Co-Founder Fahri Özkaramanlı ! Designer Co-Founder Barış Gümüştaş ! Full Stack Dev. Oytun Yücel ! Full Stack Dev. Tuğcem Yalçın ! Full Stack Dev. Daniel Swakman ! Designer Our Team
8. Technical Challenges • Providing a great and smooth user experience • Almost native feeling • Has a complex functionality • Constant development of new features • Tweaking features according to customer needs
9. Our Stack +
10. But why Ember.js?
11. The process • We were trying to choose between Angular, Backbone and Ember.js • It was beginning of spring ’13 • Backbone had a huge community but it would need too much work on our side • Angular and Ember.js were both new at the time and they were almost the same size when it comes to community and adoption • At the end we chose Ember.js because:
12. Ember.js Philosophy • Built with similar logic to backend frameworks so it’s quite familiar • Convention over configuration • Good documentation • Provides the tools for abstraction & decoupling • Provides a great support library (stuff like enumerables and utility methods, similar to ActiveSupport if you are a ruby dev) • Optimized for developer happiness (Yehuda Katz’s own words)
13. Ember.js Core Team
14. Apps Powered by Ember.js http://builtwithember.io/ Heroku’s new dashboard twitch.tv Travis CI Discourse Square dashboard Vine Apple’s help pages Skylight
15. So what is Ember.js?
16. Ember.js • Model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern • Not exactly like the server-side MVC • Based on SproutCore which is similar to Cocoa • A Rich Object Model • Utilities gathering best practices and common idioms • Data Binding
17. So we started developing with ember gem for rails!
18. Rails’s asset pipeline started to get clogged and development became harder.
19. We needed a tool to manage our build process and serve the frontend during development.
20. Ember App Kit
21. What is Ember App Kit • Developed by Ember.js core team member Stefan Penner • Provides a project structure • Package management via Bower • Grunt based workflow • Transpiles ES6 Modules • LESS,SASS,Stylus and CoffeeScript support • JS Linting via JSHint • Anything else you need through Grunt tasks • Testing https://github.com/stefanpenner/ember-app-kit
22. ES6 modules • Simple way of managing dependencies by using ‘import’ and ‘export’ • Named exports • You can use name resolving for loading dependencies. • We are transpiling ES6 modules to require.js until the standard is matured enough and natively supported by browsers.
23. Testing • There’s QUnit, Ember Testing for writing tests • Karma and Testem as test runners • TDD in Javascript • Also helpful for continuous integration
24. Compiling Assets • Compiling and serving assets for development • May be you want to use CoffeeScript, SCSS or LESS • Optimizing assets for production
25. Linting JS • Detecting errors during compilation • Improving code quality
26. Package Management • Using Bower for package management • Version management for frontend dependencies • CLI tool for adding and updating dependencies
27. RIP Ember App Kit Deprecated in favor of Ember CLI
29. Ember CLI • Not production ready yet but getting closer! • Everything provided by Ember App Kit • Generators • New asset pipeline based on broccoli • Faster asset compilation! • Better organization through more “convention over configuration” • Will become a part of Ember.js when it gets ready for production http://www.ember-cli.com
30. Generators • Just like rails generators • But for ember
31. Broccoli • Browser compilation library – a build tool for applications that run in the browser • Similar to Gulp but focused on asset compilation • Still beta but getting close • Like grunt but for specifically for compiling assets for browsers https://github.com/joliss/broccoli
32. Thanks! And we are hiring! tinyurl.com/applyparasut twitter.com/parasutcom