Ember.js Cookbook

Creating your first project

In this recipe we'll create our first project.

How to do it...

We'll begin with the Ember CLI tool to create our first project.

1. Open the command prompt and type the following command:

   $ ember new my-project
   

   This will create a brand new project called my-project. The project structure will have everything that we need to get started.

2. To display this project, we can simply run the server command:

   $ cd my-project
   $ ember server
   

   The ember server command will start up a web server on port 4200. You can access this port by opening http://localhost:4200. You should see the default Welcome to Ember website.

   Tip

   It is a good idea to keep the Ember server running while developing your application. Ember CLI uses a tool called LiveReload ...