ember-cli VS nvm

Ember pioneered the standardised usage of global cli tool. This is a perfect way to give new users a good onboarding experience as well as existing users power tools for daily usage.

If you haven't already, you can install the Ember CLI using the following command:

It has detailed documentation, an API reference, and a guide for their CLI tool to provide a better developer experience. It also has a Discord server to get help instantly.

When you have a built a single-page-application using Ember CLI you have two options for starting your app locally. You can either use the CLI's ember serve command directly or you can use the handy npm alias that is created for you after generating a new Ember app: npm run start

The code change to improve performance was small. When adding server middleware or testem middleware check the options passed to ember-cli and if they contain the path flag then don't run typechecking. A small ember-cli update was also required. ember-cli would pass all the CLI flags to the server middleware, but not to the testem middleware. Without the ember-cli update, ember-cli-typechecking would not of been able to perform the check when testem middleware was added. Interesting to note that for each PR I spent a lot more time figuring out how to effectively test the changes than implement them.

Node.js + Nvm - runtime for javascript without a browser

Install Node.js if it hasn't been installed. There are several ways to install Node.js. You may download the installer from the official website, or install it with tools like NVM. After installation, run this command to verify its installation.

Our server also needs Node.js to run our app. We could install the binary directly, but I prefer to use a tool called NVM, which allows us to easily manage Node versions. We can install it with this command:

By setting up your environment in isolation, you can prevent yourself from a lot of issues when experimenting with code. It makes your code behave more predictable due to the defined state of the runtime environment you are working with. This article should provide you with enough information to get started, but obviously, there is a lot more power embedded in NVM, Virtual Environment and RBEnv. So make sure to check their documentation.

I highly recommend setting up nodejs with a version manager, nvm was and still is a popular option, however, I now recommend and have been using fnm, a simpler and faster alternative to manage my nodejs versions.

The purpose of a version manager is to help you navigate or install any tools for development easily. Version Manager can be one tool for each dependency (e.g. NVM, g) or One tool for all dependencies (e.g. asdf, mise).

I usually develop on Windows so I installed NVM for Windows from here, but if you’re on other OS I’m sure you can find a version that supports it, probably this is the answer.

This was a very quick introduction to how I setup NodeJS on my environment using nvm. If you have any questions please refer to the official documentation or contact me via my Social Links.

Source: Can this be used to create/download npm as a standalone executable? #3237.