Sails.js and Ember.js integration

Question

Has anyone tried to use sails as ember's backend API? How would you go about it? Is there an example available? Since Sails has a different format in its built-in blueprints, is it better to make sails rest json format confirm to what ember expects or the other way around?

Thanks!

Edit

So there are two approaches:

1. change the sails format, maybe with: CRUD blueprint overriding in sails.js

2. change what ember expects: http://discuss.emberjs.com/t/sails-js-as-the-backend/5233

Answer 1

There is a project called Sane Stack that uses a Sails blueprint to generate the appropriate setup for Ember and Sails, as well as provides a generator for creating resources in Ember and Sails at the same time.

QUICKSTART

npm install -g sails sane-cli

sane new project --docker creates project with sails-disk and Docker. For production databases see Options.

sane generate resource user name:string age:number to generate a new API on the backend and models on the frontend

sane up to start the sails server on localhost:1337 as well as the ember dev server on localhost:4200.

To work on your frontend-app you work as you would normally do with ember-cli on localhost:4200.

You are now good to go.

Note: If you use Docker, make sure you have fig installed. On Mac or Windows also boot2docker and for Linux see: https://docs.docker.com/installation/ubuntulinux/

Answer 2

I can't speak for the "change what Ember expects" option, but I can say that this is precisely what blueprint overrides in Sails were invented for. This would be a perfectly reasonable way to make your app Ember-compatible.

Also keep in mind that all of the CRUD blueprints use the res.ok() response to actually send data down to the client; if you like, you can just override that with your own api/responses/ok.js, perhaps using req.url to determine the resource that was being requested, and use that to wrap your JSON object in the manner that Ember expects.

Answer 3

I just put up a few blueprint overrides that can be used as a starting point for using Sails as an Ember Data backend: https://github.com/mphasize/sails-ember-blueprints

Please let me know if you find a bug or have some suggestions for improvements!