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Node.js Blueprints

You're reading from   Node.js Blueprints Develop stunning web and desktop applications with the definitive Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783287338
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev
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Preface 1. Common Programming Paradigms FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing a Basic Site with Node.js and Express 3. Writing a Blog Application with Node.js and AngularJS 4. Developing a Chat with Socket.IO 5. Creating a To-do Application with Backbone.js 6. Using Node.js as a Command-line Tool 7. Showing a Social Feed with Ember.js 8. Developing Web App Workflow with Grunt and Gulp 9. Automate Your Testing with Node.js 10. Writing Flexible and Modular CSS 11. Writing a REST API 12. Developing Desktop Apps with Node.js Index

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We have a URL address that responds with a JSON-formatted list of tweets. There are corresponding controllers and route classes, which are defined by default from Ember.js. However, we need to set a model and get the handle from the browser's address, so we will create our own classes. This can be seen as follows:

App.SocialFeedTweetsRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
  model: function(params) {
    this.set('handle', params.handle);
    return Ember.$.getJSON('/tweets/' + params.handle);
  },
  setupController: function(controller, model) {
    controller.set("model", model);
         controller.set("handle", this.get('handle'));
    }
});

App.SocialFeedTweetsController = Ember.ArrayController.extend({
  handle: '',
  formattedHandle: function() {
    return "<a href='http://twitter.com/" + this.handle + "'>@" + this.handle + '</a>';
  }.property('handle')
});

The dynamic segment from the URL comes to the Route's model function in the params argument. We will...

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