Per ember-cli managing dependencies, 3rd party libraries, jQuery plugins, etc, should be installed via bower then included into Brocfile.js. However, what if you have a custom jQuery plugin, or other Javascript library that is required that is not available via bower.
Should these non bower'fied plugins be placed into a different directory, IE not vendor/, then added to the Brocfile.js?
You should be able to just manually include it in any directory and then app.import it from that directory.
But you should note that using bower you can install any file not just one thats in the bower repo.
for example you can do something like
bower install --save http://example.com/js/myjsfile.js
and in an ember-cli app bower would copy that file to /vendor/js/myjsfile.js
and you could then put app.import('/vendor/js/myjsfile.js') in your Brocfile.js
