Is this site open source? Can I learn Ember from it?

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As I said in my topic title, I really like ember to build my single page web app. By the way , I’m a chinese developer and my English is poor. So don’t be surprised with my poor language, I just want to get useful resources here. Thanks a lot.

I’m wondering why not making a pagination of the posts list ,because I don’t know how to make a lazy loading of posts .Good appreciate to who can help me. Sorry for my poor English .

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Sure, the project is open source and it is at http://www.discourse.org

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I recommend that you also look at this custom view, made just for that purpose.

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Thanks for your help.

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yeah,that’s cool.I found the deverloper around me using ember is not so much.So I will spend most time here to rebuild my app which is writen in pure jquery code.Thanks.

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Discourse is definitely what many would consider a “Flag ship” product for Ember, but it might not be the best learning resource, especially for beginners.

The code base is rock solid, but they have done a lot of very “Discourse-y” things to Ember that can make it a hard product to decipher.

If you don’t have the Ember inspector extension for Chrome yet, go get it. It gives you a high level, visual overview of an Ember application’s structure. In my opinion, this is the best way to start examining Discourse.

Once you’ve gotten a feel for how everything is structured, you’ll be more comfortable digging around in the source code.

Just to clarify some of my issues with Discourse as a learning resource:

  • heavy use of customized version of ember object. (Discourse.ObjectController instead of Ember.ObjectController
  • Ruby/RoR based asset pipeline
  • Not using Ember Data
  • At this point, it’s just flippin’ huge.

All totally understandable/good practices, but definitely can make your head spin if you’re just getting into it.

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You should know that list-view doesn’t have any support for lazy loading.

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Thanks for your reply,and I’m rebuilding my app with Ember.js which is developed using JQuery and native js codes.So,my purpose to learn a JavaScript MVC Framework isn’t just hava a look at it.I want to have a deeply learning.

And I have tried Angular ,but I can’t get the point and feel that’s not suit for my work.I will have a try at Ember inspector extension ,it should have been a firefox extansion there?Thanks again!

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yeah.it’s a custom view without lazy loding.I can do this in mine way with native js or JQuery and css,but I get confused in Ember.js way.

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The inspector does indeed exist for Firefox. And if you haven’t already, be sure to check out TodoMVC for basic comparisons.

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Ah, good to know. Is there something that does?

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+1.
But in the discourse use Discourse.Model.And I think find some example not use Ember Data to learn how to design the model.