Ember install:bower vs Bower install

Question

When you want to install a bower package to your ember project, what is the difference between this command

bower install <package>

and this one

ember install:bower <package>

I assume the second one is better (correct me if i'm wrong) but why?

Answer 1

Use bower install, since ember install:bower was removed from ember-cli:0.2.4.

Commands ember install:bower and ember install:npm were introduced in ember-cli:0.1.5.

They do the same thing as bower install and npm install with a few options added and they use the local version rather than the global.

This approach sometimes generate unexpected issues (see https://github.com/ember-cli/ember-cli/issues/3140#issuecomment-72037408),

so from ember-cli:0.2.4 install command is used exclusively to install addons ember install <addon-name>.