Ember Deploy Demo
An example project for deploying Ember applications.
Rationale
There are a lot of good resources out there on how to deploy ember apps following the strategy suggested by Luke Melia at EmberConf 2015.
The ember-cli-deploy addon takes you 99% of the way there and makes this deploy method super simple.
This project puts together all the pieces and show an example workflow that allows you to use Redis/Cloudfront to serve your app in production but also to use Redis in development as well, avoiding the need to proxy from ember to your server side API.
Live Demo/Slides
The project is currently hosted here: Live Demo
The server app serves the index.html from ember-cli and exposes an API endpoint that returns the slides.
Running the Project(s)
Dependencies:
- NPM
- Bower
- Redis
Switch into the Rails project and install dependencies:
$ cd edd-rails
$ bundle install
Start the server:
$ bundle exec rails server
Looking at http://localhost:3000, you should see "INDEX NOT FOUND" displayed. This is because we've yet to deploy an index to Redis in development.
Switch into the Ember project and install dependencies:
$ cd ../edd-cli
$ npm install
$ bower install
Start the server:
$ ember server
After the initial build, you'll see a line line:
- ✔ Activated revision `__development__`
in the console. This means that the index has been pushed to Redis. Let's check Redis:
$ redis-cli
> KEYS edd-cli*
1) "edd-cli:current"
2) "edd-cli:revisions"
3) "edd-cli:__development__"
Looks like Ember CLI Deploy pushed the indexes in. Go ahead and head back to the Rails app at http://localhost:3000 to see the __development index "running" inside the Rails app via Redis.
Feedback
Please let me know what you think!
Thanks
@lukemelia @levelbossmike @elucid and all the other contributors to ember-cli-deploy