This repo is an example of how to use the Django and Ember.js together, taking advantage of the Django plugins, Django Rest Framework and Ember-DRF.
I will try to add some informal documentation in this Readme. Hopefully others will contribute.
Creating a new app from scratch
The following terminal commands will get you a basic project structure similar to the one used here. It is assumed that you have pip and virtualenv and ember-cli installed. It is easy to google instructions for installing each on your particular operating system. It is also assumed that you have created a new repo for your project on github.
git clone <new repo url>
# create a virtual env for this project
# you may want to alternatively put your virtualenv in the project
# directory in which case you should make sure to .gitignore it.
virtualenv ~/virtualenvs/cars
source ~/virtualenvs/cars/bin/activate
# install the python dependencies
pip install Django
pip install djangorestframework
pip install emberdrf
# save these dependencies for easy installation later
pip freeze > requirements.txt
# start the django project and move it to the `django` folder
django-admin.py startproject cars
mv cars django
# start the ember project and move it to the `ember` folder
ember new cars
mv cars ember