Ember Best Practices

Ember Philosophies, the "Ember Way"

Data down, Ember Up

Data should always migrate down from it's parent and into it's child component / resource / etc. The data shouldn't be manipulated. Once the data is migrated down, use an action to bubble it back up.

Ember Concepts

Actions

• When naming actions use verbs to indicate an action

Routes

Don't pollute your user's browser history.

• When possible utilize beforeModel to evaluate if it is the correct route.
• Utilize replaceWith() to opt out of a certain route before transitioning to it.

Tooling

Ember CLI

Ember CLI will allow one to easily implement best practices that are baked into the CLI tool:

• "Pod" Based Folder Structure
• ES6 transpilation
• Unit Testing

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Resources

Articles

• Ember Best Practices for Large Scale projects
• Nathan Hammond - Controlling Route Traversal with Flows by

Videos

• Designing Ember Components,August 2015