What scripts do I need to get started with Ember without ember-cli?

The app I am building has some pages that are traditional server-rendered. Then, there are other sections that will be a single page app, like the user user dashboard, account settings, etc, and this is where I’d like to use Ember. It will behave like any other single page Ember app. I just wont be run using ember server and the initial HTML payload will come from Laravel. This is why I just assumed using the standalone scripts would be easier than ember-cli. Am I wrong?