What is the developer flow for ember-engines?

Question

I am just beginning to look into Ember.js engines. One thing that stands out is that for every change I make in the engine code I need to re-install it into the host application. There is no live reload, rebuild or any of this.

Is there a way to smooth out this flow as it would slow down development considerably.

Answer 1

The trick is to set isDevelopingAddon like so in the index.js file for the addon and use NPM link to get it into the main application node_packages folder - you will then get live reload, etc-:

// Addon index.js
isDevelopingAddon: function() {
  return true;
}

To add to this I found an interesting article here: Ember and Yarn Workspaces