External Libraries and Addons

Ember CLI is set up to offer developers speed in many ways, including adding code from the open-source community. In previous chapters, you added node modules to your local environment via npm. Earlier in this chapter we discussed loading external libraries via Bower, another package manager.

Ember CLI works well with both of these package managers. Installing libraries or tools is done with simple commands like:

npm install [package name] --save-dev
npm install [package name] --save
bower install [package name] --save

When using external libraries, these command-line tools load files to the directories bower_components and node_modules.

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