Ember Data in the Wild: Getting Ember Data to Work With Your API

Have a custom API that you aren’t sure how to use with Ember Data? Interested in writing your own adapter or serializer? Want to just know more about how Ember Data works? This is the Ember Data book you have been waiting for.

Lots of books and tutorials start off teaching Ember with Ember Data. This is great, especially if you are in control of your API, but what if you aren’t? You do a little research and start seeing terminology like adapters, serializers, transforms, and snapshots and quickly become overwhelmed. Maybe you’ve thought to yourself that Ember isn’t for you. This was me when I first started with Ember. I wasn’t in control of my APIs and the APIs I was using were not built using the Rails conventions. Well, if this sounds familiar, then this book is for you. My goal with this book is to take you from beginner to expert when working with Ember Data and learn how to adapt Ember Data to fit any API.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – Welcome
Chapter 2 – Ember Data Overview
Chapter 3 – Talking to APIs with Adapters
Chapter 4 – API Response Formats and Serializers
Chapter 5 – Common Adapter and Serializer Customizations
Chapter 6 – Writing Adapters and Serializers from Scratch
Chapter 7 – Nested Resource Paths and Relationship Links
Chapter 8 – Working with Nested Data and Embedded Records
Chapter 9 – Handling Custom Error Responses
Chapter 10 – Testing Ember Data Customizations
Chapter 11 – Common Customizations with JSON-API
Chapter 12 – Goodbye