Start Your App

Ember CLI takes a very app-centric approach. The first thing you do is to create the app, and every module you create is part of that app. As a result, we’re going to follow suit, and explore all of Ember’s key concepts in the context of one app.

We’ll be writing an app called EmberNote, a slimmed-down clone of Evernote,[6] the web-based note-taking app. Our first step is to create the app’s repository (so called because Ember CLI assumes you’ll be using Git as a version control system).

Creating the App Repository

Open a command prompt, navigate to a location where you keep your code, and run the following command:

 $ ​ember new ember-note

This will create a new directory for your app. Take a look at the tip that follows ...

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