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What is Ember?

What is Ember?

From the course: Learning Ember.js

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What is Ember?

What is Ember.js? Honestly, the short answer to this question is on the current version of the Ember homepage. Ember.js is a framework for creating ambitious web applications, and just so there's no confusion, I'll add that it's written in JavaScript. Now, let's go on to a longer answer. Ember is a framework that was built with the goal of letting web developers build large complex applications, but to do so as easily as possible. It can be used to create any web application of any size, but when the core team behind Ember created it, they envisioned that it would be used to create large, complex, web apps. Before we discuss how Ember works and why you should use it, let's look at a few Ember web applications that fit the description of a very large web app. One of the most popular large Ember apps is Discourse, which describes itself as discussion software. Its goal is to redefine the traditional web-form software, like vBulletin and phpBB, and make it not only more efficient, but…

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