Ember.js Grunt Starter Kit

This is a Grunt.js 0.4x starter project that gives you everything you need to start developing Ember.js applications.

This is a fork of the grunt-ember-boilerplate project.

The differences:

1. Does not use coffeescript.
2. Includes Bootstrap CSS libraries.
3. Includes JSHINT for linting the JavaScript code.
4. Changed the Application directory from libs to app.
5. Changed the template extension from .handlebars to .hbs.
6. Includes the Moment.js library and EmberHelper for Date formatting.
7. Also includes the localstorage-adapter.js library for testing localstorage.

Instructions

You must have npm installed for this to run.

1. Install the Grunt CLI globally npm install -g grunt-cli

2. Clone the repo with your own directory name and remove prior .gitfolder git clone https://github.com/dastagg/emberjs-grunt-starter-kit.git your-application-name cd your-application-name && rm -rf .git

3. Initialize a git repository: git init git add . git commit -m "Initial Commit"

4. Install project dependencies npm install

Now to develop your application:

First run the grunt command. This will do the initial creation of the project.

I use tmux to open three panes but you could also open three terminal windows or tabs.

The first is just open, if I need it for whatever.

The second: I use to run the grunt watch command. This will run the default action (which does everything) anytime a file in apps/ changes.

I have a bash alias alias webserver='open http://localhost:8000 && python -m SimpleHTTPServer' to create a local webserver.

The third: cd to the public directory and run webserver. This will startup the server and open your browser to the site.

When you want to deploy, run the grunt precompile command to generate a production ready version of the js/application.js file.

If you're using the public/index.html in production, be sure to delete the live-reload script tag at the bottom of the page.

Develop in the apps directory, your generated files end up in the the js and css folders in the public directory.

If you are new to Ember, and are not sure how to set up a project, check out Ryan Florence's Ember-tools That project provides rails-like-scaffolding, and this project's file structure is based on that.

Testing

To Be Implemented!

Todos

Add the testing functionallity.

Clean up the structure to combine the app.js and index.js files and move the route.js and store.js files to the routes and models directories (respectively).

Make this an actual grunt project template, versus cloning this repo and deleting the existing .git directory.