The Basic Anatomy of an Ember Application

There are a lot of different aspects of Ember, the Javascript “framework for creating ambitious web applications,” that you’ll need to understand before you really feel a sense of mastery. But the most fundamental and useful by far is to get the basic understanding of the shape of an app. They have a few core units that you’ll want to understand, and you can mostly work out the details from there. If you’ve been a web programmer for some time, some of the anatomical units are probably pretty familiar to you. Actually most of them probably are, which is one of Ember’s best qualities. If its core architecture is familiar and comfortable to you, you can move around Ember projects simply because they’re all likely to use these same core units. But whether you’re new to each and every unit we’ll quickly summarize here, or an old hand at these concepts but new to Ember, I’m pretty sure you’ll learn something.