Introduction to Routing
Explore the essential concepts of routing in Ember.js to navigate web applications effectively. Learn how to create routes manually and with Ember CLI, implement nested and dynamic routes, manage the application and index routes, and handle 404 errors within an Ember app.
Routing is an essential part of any web application development framework. Routing provides an easy way to navigate through the various stages of our application. Ember has a powerful router with a wide range of features. We have a router.js file in our app directory. This contains the site map of our application. The router.js file is responsible for mapping all our routes in the browser. Let’s see how we can generate routes.
Creating a route in Ember
There are two ways to create a route in an Ember application. We can create a route manually or run an Ember CLI command.
Creating a route manually
Let’s first discuss the manual route creation. Suppose we want to create a cart route in our e-commerce application. We perform the following steps:
- Create a file in the
app/routesdirectory and name itcart.js. - Create a template for our route in the
app/templatesdirectory namedcart.hbs.
Note: The names of the route,
cart.js, and the template,cart.hbs, should be the same. This enables the Ember router to match the template to the route.
Our route is ready to load. However, we also need to specify in our application to load this cart.js and cart.hbs file whenever ...