Where do you place a simple variable in the Ember App Kit file structure so it can be accessed by a template file?

Question

Using this example: jsbin

Where would I put this line of code:

App.name = 'White'

in the EAK file structure so that it will render on the index page as in the example?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is the right way. But generally EAK tries to avoid polluting the global namespace. So a method to have globals accessible every where is to use initializers to register a globals dependency and inject them to all the controllers. This is the same way ember data injects the store to the controller.

Inside app/initializers create global.js file

var globals = Ember.Object.extend({
  name: 'Edgar Allen Poe'
});

export default {
  name: "Globals",

  initialize: function(container, application) {
    container.typeInjection('component', 'store', 'store:main');
    application.register('global:variables', globals, {singleton: true});
    application.inject('controller', 'globals', 'global:variables');
  }
};

This will inject the globals to all the controllers. You can refer it in a template like

{{globals.name}}