How does lineman compare to ember-cli?

Ember CLI
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I’m planning on building a web application with an EmberJS front-end that talks to a Flask-based RESTful API. I was originally excited to get going with lineman to help tackle the front-end, but recently I’ve been introduced to ember-cli which, while newer/less developed at the moment, seems to much more tightly integrated with EmberJS.

If I’m committed to EmberJS, how does lineman compare to ember-cli?

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What did you choose for your project? I’m planning on building an API for ember-data with Flesk as well.

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I tried Lineman at first and it’s pretty nice, but Ember is moving so quickly and ember-cli is much more tightly integrated, so I switched over to ember-cli early on and never looked back. Stefan is very attentive to issues. It’s recently sped up a lot too.

For a faux API (until you build one in Flask), I recommend using Trek’s Pretender library.

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Thanks!. Trek’s Pretender seems really interesting.

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I’m curious, are you using anything to coerce the Flask API to render responses with the right kind of sideloading that Ember-data needs (jsonapi.org spec)?

I want to craete an API in Flask but wonder how these libs compare to Rails’s ActiveModelSerializer which takes care of all that stuff.

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For my projects, much of the data I’m pulling is from MongoDB. I manipulate it as dicts or list of dicts in Python, then return a jsonified response using Flask’s jsonify feature, e.g.

returned = {'people':peopleData}
return jsonify(returned)

or you could return multiple sets for sideloading:

return jsonify(filters=filters, sections=sections, options=options)
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You can also check Twilio’s https://github.com/twilio/flask-restful

erkarl has a very good example using it with ember-data