EmberJS Tech-Stack Browser Applications for Search Engines

Question

I read quite a bit about JavaScript client applications and search engines. I found two common approaches:

Workflow 1:

Prerequisite: The entire web application wears out gracefully and can be used without JavaScript. Thus, for search engine robots, it can be seen that they are crawled.

• A user comes from a Google search on a specific topic
• The theme loads as quickly as possible in plain html
• JS App Framework boots in the background
• Once it is ready, the JS App Framework takes all actions and routes, etc.

Workflow 2:

Prerequisite: The server backend is developed after the Google ajax-crawling guide ( https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling ) and returns to escaped_fragment URLs (e.g. www.example.com/ajax. Html? _Escaped_fragment_ = key = value) plain html. As I understand it, something like http://phantomjs.org/ can be used for this to make sure that there is no duplication of code.

• Google shows ajax url in its results.
• The request is made using ajax url #!
• The emberjs application is initialized and the desired state is loaded depending on the URL.

Question:

What should an emberjs scanning stack look like in order to offer server-side rendering for search engine bots and js-framework integrity? Why do emberjs developers recommend doing this? (For example. Node + Emberjs + phantomjs + - x OR Rails + Emberjs + y OR Playframework + Z)?

I know that there can be many ways, but I think it would be useful to use stackoverflow to filter general approaches.

Sidenote:

I already looked at some JS frameworks that want to create such a complete stack out of the box. To name them here:

• http://derbyjs.com/ (good approach, but still alpha)
• http://batmanjs.org/ (it is not clear how production is ready (especially the backend))
• http://www.firebase.com/ (somehow different, but also wondering if they qualify for security)
• http://meteor.com/ (also preview status)
• http://developer.yahoo.com/cocktails/mojito/

I especially ask about emberjs because I like their approach, and I think that the team behind it is definitely capable of creating one of the best frameworks.

Answer 1

I have yet to see something that existed before, similar to this for emberjs. However, there are early attempts to integrate ember as a server module for node.

Something to check is derby.js , which actually performs C # 1 working process. You might want to look at your code base, and if you can cope with the task, adapt it to ember.