How to use a custom Express server with Ember CLI?

Question

I\'m using Ember CLI 0.0.36. When I run ember server in my project folder, my understanding is that a server buried in some Brocoli process gets started. Howeve

Answer 1

This is actually pretty simple with Ember CLI 0.0.40:

Create folder structure

ember new my-app

Go into the newly created folder

cd my-app

Generate api-stub* (see update)

ember generate api-stub my-server

This latter command creates a server folder with an index.js file and a routes folder with a my-server.js file.

Open my-server.js file and you see:

module.exports = function(app) {
    var express = require("express");
    var myServerRouter = express.Router();
    myServerRouter.get("/", function(req, res) {
        res.send({my-server:"something"});
    });
    app.use("/api", myServerRouter);
};

All you need to do then is to change that file. If the Ember app makes calls to /api/hamsters and /api/project, edit as follows:

module.exports = function(app) {
    var express = require("express");
    var myServerRouter = express.Router();
    myServerRouter.get("/hamsters", function(req, res) {
        res.send({ ... });
    });
    myServerRouter.get("/project", function(req, res) {
        res.send({ ... });
    });
    app.use("/api", myServerRouter);
};

To start the server (from project's root):

ember server

Make sure you have updated node.js to the latest version as well.

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Updates

As of Ember CLI 0.0.41 (via this PR) api-stub has been renamed http-mock.