Let me explain : I have the core of my app which is a REST api. It handles data verification (“is the email field an email ?” etc.) and responds with JSON, caches responses etc.
I want to build the user front end (forms, displaying data and styling it with CSS, etc).
Is Ember for me ? I still have a hard time fully understanding what Ember is Is anyone in this situation ?
Subsidiary question : as it is javascript code, is all the ember calculation done by the client ? Meaning : can I host the front end on a “weak” server or heroku dyno ?
I think the short answer is yes. But it also depends on what kind of application you want to build, is it a content heavy web app or a highly interactive application? My sense is that ember is more geared towards the latter.
Yes, ember is perfect for building rich clients backed by an API.
Instead of having a PHP or rails app render the html on the server and send it to the browser, you send a JS app to the browser and that renders the html, possibly using data from an API.
Additionally you can go and read some interviews of people using Ember.js here http://emberenos.com, that can give you an idea how’s Ember being used, what kind of apps are being built with it, the things that people like and dislike.
Is anyone in this situation ?