emberloop

A "proof-of-concept" using EmberJS (front-end) and Loopback (back-end) using the JSON API Component for Loopback.

Prerequisites

This project requires that Docker and Docker-Compose be installed locally on your machine.

Docker 1.8.3+
Docker-Compose 1.4.2+

Starting The Project

First, you need to clone the repository onto your machine:

git clone https://github.com/tsteuwer/emberloop.git

Enter the newly created folder emberloop and start the docker containers

cd emberloop
docker-compose up

Once all the containers have finished installing their dependencies and are up and running, you can visit the following URLs to view ember and loopback:

Actual tests with backend: http://localhost:4200
API: http://localhost:3000/api
Loopback API Explorer: http://localhost:3000/explorer

Current Versions

Node: 4.2.1 -- Ember-CLI: 1.13.8
Node: 4.2.1 -- Strongloop: Latest -- JSON API Component: 0.7.1

Interacting With Containers

There's a /bin folder which supplies various bash functions for Unix users. To run them, go to the main emberloop directory and use the following commands:

EmberJS

To run specific Ember CLI commands, simply call ./bin/ember followed by your function and arguments.

/**
 * Examples: They will be placed in the appropriate directory in /front-end/
 */

// Generate a new route
./bin/ember generate route people

// Generate a new model
./bin/ember generate model user

// Generate an adapter (Note: short hands can still be used)
./bin/ember g adapter user

// Destroy a previously generated model
./bin/ember destroy model user

Loopback

You have access to run any loopback command to create models, datasources, et al via ./bin/slc:

/**
 * Examples: They will be placed in the appropriate directory in /back-end/
 */

// Generate a new model
./bin/slc loopback:model people

// Generate a new datasource
./bin/slc loopback:datasource mysql

NPM

There are two separate npm scripts. One that runs in the front-end (Ember) and back-end (Loopback) containers. Each one will update the package.json file in its appropriate folder.

// This will run npm on the frontend container with ember
./bin/npm-frontend install -g whatever

// This will run npm on the backend container with loopback
./bin/npm-backend install -g whatever

Bower

To run Bower commands with the Ember container, use ./bin/bower.

/**
 * Examples: They will be placed in the appropriate directory in /front-end/
 */

// Generate a new route
./bin/bower install --save-dev es6-javascript-validators

./bin/bower install --save phantomjs

Gulp

To run Gulp commands with the Ember container, use ./bin/gulp.

// Run a gulp task 
./bin/gulp myGulpTask

Mine

This function changes all the permissions so that you can overwrite them. The ember commands seem to require this function because of the way it's ran in the container. Simply run this after generating a model if you run into any permission issues.

// Change ember files to be your own 
./bin/mine

Troubleshooting

Failed to watch or "inotify watches reached!"

If you receive issues on linux about inotify limits reach, please read this thread: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/13757

tsteuwer / emberloop