Advantages of ember-cli over grunt / yeoman

Question

My curiousity for ember-cli has grown after learning about it at a recent emberjs meetup.

As far as i know, ember-cli grown out of ember-starter-kit. From there, ember-starter-kit was deprecated in favor of ember-cli recently.

I've used grunt/ yeoman for over 10 months now. I've grown favor towards it because of it's plugin ecosystem.

On the otherhand, what are some advantages of using Ember-cli vs grunt & yeoman? Or are there any advantages at all?

What can ember-cli achieve that grunt / yeoman can't?

Answer 1

Here are some major differences with ember-cli over grunt / yeoman:

• Ember.js utilizes broccoli.js as it's pipeline.
• Ember.js conventions are instantly baked in.
• Tightly integrates with ember components: ember-data, handlebars, qunit testing, etc
• Allows use of ES6 transpiler to compile ember.js. This makes code future friendly.
• Ability for "rails-like" code generation of routes, controllers, etc.

Here are some advantages of grunt / yeoman over ember-cli

• Grunt provides lots of pre-existing code and functionality. It is more mature than broccoli. Some plugins can be lacking in broccoli.
• Yeoman allows the ability to create a while project as well with generators.

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