Using Ember Services to Implement a Cart

Learn to create and implement a cart using Ember services.

A shopping cart is an excellent example of a service. We have products added to our database. However, because the products being bought could belong to multiple categories, the shared state concept of Ember services is particularly useful here.

Creating a service for cart

Let’s create a shopping cart service by running the following Ember CLI command:

ember g service cart-service

This creates a cart-service.js file in app/services.

Defining the addToCart action

In the next step, we need to define the action for the Add to Cart button in our products-details component. Let’s open app/components/product-details.hbs and add an action to the Add to Cart button:

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