Ember-CLI rundown using it with Laravel or other backend frameworks

Question

Using the ember-starter-kit all I had to do was throw the contents of it in the /my_laravel_app/public folder and everything was fine.

Now I am trying to create a project with laravel and ember-cli

I'm a little confused as to how I need to structure my application? In which laravel folder should I be running the ember new my-app command? Furthermore, how can I use apache for testing my ember-cli application instead of using ember server command since I need to test it with my laravel generated apis.

Any help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

Here is one way to do it

Go into your root laravel folder and run the ember new my_app_name

Then go into your my_app_name folder and create a new file build_custom.sh add the following lines to the file

ember build
cp dist/index.html ../app/views/ember.php
cp -r dist/assets ../public/assets

Explanation: the first line builds your ember-cli app and generates all the necessary files in the dist/ folder. The second line copies the index.html file generated to app/views/ folder and renames it ember.php so laravel can recognize it. The last line just copies all the assets into your laravel public folder

You can add the following in your app/routes.php file in laravel to serve your ember app. Make sure it's all the way at the bottom so your other api routes take preference

Route::get('{ember?}', function() {
    return View::make('ember');
})->where('ember', '.*'); 

That should be it, everything should work as intended. Good luck.