Superhero

This is an app which showcases communicating with a third party API using Ember. It uses the Marvel API to list or search the Marvel character database via their API.

Prerequisites

You will need the following things properly installed on your computer.

• Git
• Node.js (with NPM)
• Bower
• Ember CLI
• PhantomJS

Installation

• git clone git@github.com:dtt101/superhero.git
• cd superhero
• npm install
• bower install

Marvel API

To access the Marvel API you will need to get an API key from: http://developer.marvel.com/

Create a .env file at the root of the project with:

MARVEL_PUBLIC_KEY=YOURKEYGOESHERE

Running / Development

• ember server
• Visit your app at http://localhost:4200.

Running Tests

• ember test
• ember test --server

Building

• ember build (development)
• ember build --environment production (production)

Deploying

Demo available at: https://superhero-demo.firebaseapp.com

The demo has been deployed to firebase, an example firebase.json is in the project root.

You'll need your own firebase application and account, full setup and, instructions here: https://www.firebase.com/docs/hosting/guide/

After setup to deploy run:

ember build -prod
firebase deploy

See http://www.ember-cli.com/#deployments for other deployment options.