Ember.js Cookbook

Working with relationships

When working with a data store, you'll need to be able to handle relationships. In this recipe, we'll go over some common relationships from one-to-many and many-to-one and also how to use it with Ember Data.

Getting ready

As with the other recipes, we'll be using Ember CLI Mirage to mock our backend. In this recipe, we'll create a simple one-to-many and many-to-one relationship. We'll mock a school that has instructors and classes. For every class, there is one instructor. Every instructor will have one or more classes.

1. Create a new Ember application. In this application, generate the following files:

   $ ember install ember-cli-mirage
   $ ember g model instructor
   $ ember g model class
   $ ember g route index
   $ ember g helper ...