Ember proxy service

Nginx hosting an Ember app with a backend API #ember-cli #Ember.js

!!! This service is DEPRECATED. Please use static-file-service or fastboot-app-server to host your Ember app

Running your Ember app

docker run --name my-app \
    --link my-backend-container:backend \
    -v /path/to/spa/dist:/app \
    -v /path/to/config:/config \
    -d semtech/ember-proxy-service

All HTML requests and requests to a location matching the regex in the STATIC_FOLDERS_REGEX environment variable (default: ^/(assets|font)/) are served by the Ember app. Remaining requests are proxied to the backend API.

Custom Nginx configurations with a name like *.conf can be mounted in /config and will be included automatically.

Using environment variables at run time with an Ember application

The service can use environment variables to configure a frontend build at runtime. It will get the environment variables prefixed by EMBER_ and match them with the variables defined in the frontend's configuration. It will then update the file /app/index.html the use the values of the environment variables that matched.

Configure environment variables in the frontend's container

The environment variables have to be prefixed by EMBER_ to be recognized by the service as variables to be matched. By using docker-compose, the service configuration will look like:

docker-compose.yml

frontend:
    environment:
        EMBER_VAR_EXAMPLE: "example-value"

Configure the frontend's variables

The frontend's configuration will use {{VAR_EXAMPLE}} as a placeholder that will be replaced by this service at runtime.

config/environment.js

if (environment === 'production') {
    ENV['VAR_EXAMPLE'] = '{{VAR_EXAMPLE}}'
}