Explaining Ember Process

Full disclosure: This is my understanding on how Ember works. Feel free to correct me on points where I'm wrong.

How I understand it is that Ember starts with the route (the actual url on the address bar).
From the url in the address bar, it tries to match a route from your App.Router.
Once a route is matched, it calls the corresponding Route class (extending Em.Route), here you set up the model.
This route is paired with a controller (even if you don't specify one, it's matched with a generic controller) and renders a template.

In concrete terms, if you have the following Route map:

App.Router.map(function(){
  this.route('home');
});

If you are on http://localhost/#/home, it does the following:
  1. Does '/home' exist somewhere in the Router map? If yes, call HomeRoute, otherwise raise an error
  2. Does HomeController exist? If yes, use that, else create one that extends Em.Controller
  3. Look for a template with data-template-name equals "home"
  4. All calls to controller inside the template defaults to HomeController
  5. Render default template, while outputting data-template-name="home" in its outlet