As its name indicates, data in JSON format is organized like a JavaScript object with a series of key-value pairs. We will be using JSON-formatted APIs to gather data for our Ember models in our applications. If you're curious to learn more about APIs, visit the Wikipedia entry for Application programming interface. Test Driving an Ember Application Welcome back! If this is the first tutorial on Ember.js you are reading on Semaphore Community, it's recommended that you first read Part 1, where we laid the groundwork with Ember and created some client-side models. In this tutorial, we're taking a little break from Ember and looking at building a simple API that we can use to interact with the client. Ember developers have great options for how they handle data from back end APIs. Ember itself works with any type of back end: REST, JSON:API, GraphQL, or anything else. Many developers choose to use Ember Data, a powerful set of tools for formatting Have you ever been completely stumped by a nonstandard API and integrating it with Ember Data? Ember Data "just works" with JSON API out of the box, so often you do not need to know much about the magic behind the scenes. When you have a nonstandard API, however, things can get hairy quick. In this follow-up post to How to add JWT Authentication to a CakePHP 3 REST API we will update our existing API so it will produce JSON API compliant output giving you the benefits of standardization and instant compatibility with JSON API supporting tools like Ember Data. > API methods used in this post shared with Postman This is a tutorial video for working with Ember Data. Specifically, I wanted an example of working with an external API and using adapters and serializers ember-data. ember-data is a library for robustly managing data in applications built with Ember.js. ember-data is designed to be agnostic to the underlying persistence mechanism, so it works just as well with JSON API over HTTP as it does with stream