In recent few months, I am learning and developing Emberjs apps. There are so many ways to setup an Ember app. Instead of the Ember internals and how-tos, here I like to post about the development workflow and tooling around it. Since I am a Rails dev, my first attempt was obviously to go with it. There are 2 rubygems, as of this writing, that sets up the ember with rails. First is the ember-rails which integrates with Asset pipeline. It provide the generators to install the latest releases of emberjs. This gem generates the folder structure inside the app/assets/javascriptsfolder and also builds with development or production variants of emberjs according to environment.
Pretty much I hope, many of us have come around the Ember Starter Kit project. Its a Grunt based project and has various features. Grunt is a general purpose Javascript task runner. Its entire architecture is based upon the Plugin system. When my app started to evolve little bigger, file numbers increased, the same feeling of slow-ness started to come up when it tries to compile those files. When I change and save a single file, its compilation started to take few seconds.
My simple requirements:
* No dependency on Ruby
* Faster compilation
* Organized/Structured code/folder
* Coffee-script support
* Faster test runner/feedback
* Environments in the JS framework
The above development framework or setup lack at least one of my requirements. So, my quest didn’t stop here and continued on. Then I found this project Tapas with Ember. It is a Brunch skeleton for rapid Emberjs app development. It is an ultra-fast HTML5 build tool. But first, a basic look upon Brunch.
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