dsember | DSpace UI prototype in Ember JS - client app

dsember is a JavaScript library. dsember has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

This prototype is written in Ember JS, using Ember CLI. Ember CLI is a command line utility to help set-up, organize, scaffold and build Ember projects. It's comparable to yeoman, or the rails command for Ruby on Rails apps. The prototype has been designed to work on top of an unmodified DSpace 5.x REST API. During development we've used as a backend. This prototype consists of 2 separate parts: dsember and dsember-core. It was designed like this to make it easy to customize and keep customizations separate from the vanilla codebase. You could view the dsember app as the src/dspace/modules directory in a DSpace release version; it imports the source code, and contains only the differences specific to the current project. At build time, Ember CLI addons are merged with the importing application's directory structure, making it function like an overlay in Maven. First the addon's code is copied to the dist directory, and the app's code is copied on top. That way, if you put a file with the same name, at the same location in the app, it will replace the version in the addon. If you use multiple addons, their order in package.json determines the order in which they'll be overlayed. You are not limited to overwriting files to build on existing functionality, Ember CLI comes with support for ES6 modules. Each file is a module, a self contained unit that can't use any external resources unless they are imported first. It also has an explicit set of exports. Everything else is private to the module. In Ember CLI that means that you can import any class from an addon and extend it, or reopen it so all future instances of the original class will have the changes.