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The second part of this guide is going to focus on building out our REST API, and adding MongoDB to the mix. Relevant links from the previous tutorial are listed below.

• Part 1
• Example on Github

Todo Model

In order to return a list of todos, we’ll first need to create a Schema definition for our todo. We’ll set this up in the server/models/todo.js file.

Mongoose provides a clean API for working with MongoDB that makes setting up our models fairly painless.

Todo Routes

We can now add the various routes for listing, creating, updating, and deleting todos. We’re going to list our routes in server/routes.js. This file will be responsible for requiring our controllers, and mapping specific paths to controller methods.

We’ll also need to require our server/routes.js file in server.js. This is done on line 22.

Todos Controller

Our next step will be creating the controller that’s going to handle our route actions. We’ll do this by creating the server/controllers/todos.js file specified in our routes.js file.

Tutorial Changes

Our back-end is now prepared to handle the Getting Started Ember.JS tutorial. We will need to make some small changes to the tutorial for it to function correctly with Ember Data.

The changes we’ll be making are to app/controllers/todos_controller.js, and app/routes/todos.js.

In todos_controller.js, on line 9, you need to change 'todo' to App.Todo.

In todos.js, on lines 15 and 26, you’ll also need to update 'todo' to App.Todo.