Ember.js Cookbook

Building a chat application

In this recipe, we'll combine what you learned with initializers and dependency injection to create a chat room. The chat room will use WebSockets to communicate with the host.

How to do it...

1. In a new application, generate these files:

   $ ember g service sockjs
   $ ember g component chat-room
   $ ember g initializer application
   $ bower install sockjs --save
   

   These will generate the files needed for the project. The chat-room component will have all the logic for the chat room that we'll create.

2. Import the SockJS library to the application:

   // ember-cli-build.js
   …
   app.import('bower_components/sockjs/sockjs.min.js');
   …

   This will import the library so that we can use the global variable, sockjs, anywhere in our application.

3. Create ...