Seems nowadays everything including loading modules is generated from embercli.
Is it possible to create a emberjs 2.0 application without the use of ember-cli?
What are some limitations of not using ember-cli?
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I think it is possible (I used 1.10 without ember-cli) but I would not suggest trying, because it is a fight vs framework and will make your life harder. Anyway, you will need some tool to build your application (make single minified js file).
- Gennady Dogaev
If your concern is with deploying/serving a separate front-end with CLI, keep in mind you could take advantage of CLI for organizing and building your assets without actually using it to serve. But as Gennady said, I wouldn't recommend this and you're bound to have some pains. You'll also find that more addons will stop including documentation and builds for non-CLI use (a lot already have).
- Tom Netzband
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Yes, it definitely still is. I support 5 ember applications at my work. 2 of which live on the ASP.Net stack, 3 are on a Java stack. The 2 on the ASP.Net stack aren't using ember-cli and work perfectly fine as a global application.
Here, I've created an ember app without ember-cli: http://emberjs.jsbin.com/xeqevogado/edit?html,js,output
