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Ember.js and the server

Ember.js and the server

- [Narrator] So Ember.js is the front-end aspect of our web application, but what about the back-end? What about the server? The truth of the matter is, you can use anything with Ember data. Ember data is the Ember add-on to handle all of the data in our application. Consider Ember data the layer that takes requests to retrieve or push data to the server and handles them. Ember data is designed to be agnostic in its treatment of the persistent mechanism. Typically, this means you're working with a REST JSON-based API. Sometimes, however, you're working with something entirely different, and that's just fine. Ember data will handle it all. So we're going to build an API in Ruby, maybe Python or PHP or we're going to use a new fun language like Go, or Node, or something else. No, that's not the purpose of this course, instead we want to focus on the Ember side of the problem. Mirage is an Ember add-on, that let's us fake as if we have an API server. Mirage has a ton of features, but I…

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