Ember, Node & CouchDB at Artoo

This is a proposal for JSFoo 2014 (Bangalore, India). Ember provides good structure to build an ambitious web application. We will draw insights from our work that we hope will be useful to you.

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1. Building Ambitious Ember Applications! Kaushik Bhat & Sameer Segal Artoo (www.artoo.in) Image Credit: http://boonconic.com/content/images/2014/Feb/C_nim.gif
2. Ambitious? • 613 Coffee Files • 225 Models • 108 Routes • 187 Controllers • 147 Templates • 5 Adapters & 2 Serializers Image Credit: http://static.minutewith.com/img/couchdb.png | http://img.scoop.it/60POAMcoOs1QpSs9vvthV4XXXL4j3HpexhjNOf_P3YmryPKwJ94QGRtDb3Sbc6KY http://blogs.encamina.com/returnvalue/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2014/05/nodejs_logo.png | http://lucene.apache.org/images/lucene_logo_green_300.png
3. • Doesn’t Ember have Active Generation? • Yes, we have tried to do the bare minimum and not fight Ember
4. Demo
5. Amount of time spent by users on the platform
6. Full Text Search using Lucene
8. Forms through components and ember-validations
9. Using ACE editor as a component
10. 5 Ember App-lets • Split the functionality into 5 Ember app-lets that are loaded at runtime to make a Giant Ember Application • Modifications to Ember App Kit • Ember Resolver • Grunt Options
11. Adapter & Serializers • Extending RESTAdapter • Embedded Payloads, Polymorphic types • CouchDB • Lucene • Nodejs • By sticking to Ember conventions, we were able to improve our APIs
12. Components • Graphs (nvd3 + d3) • Forms (inspired by ember-forms) • ... and everything in between
13. Testing • Unit testing with QUnit • Setup `moduleFor` • Basic spies to speed up your tests
14. Q & A