Ember-CLI migration questions

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I’ve been using a custom build/module system for the better part of a year now (since just before Ember-CLI got popular). But now that Ember 2.0 is looking to move to Ember-CLI and Ember-CLI is a bit more stable, I’m looking to migrate. I’m doing a test run with our code right now and I have a few questions that hopefully somebody can help with:

  1. Our company has a few dependencies installed via Bower that don’t contain bower.json files. Some of them are ZIP files that get extracted, some are GitHub Gists that contain the files we want. When adding these dependencies to bower.json with Ember-CLI, ember server doesn’t run because it doesn’t think those dependencies are installed. Is there some way to manually configure how Ember-CLI handles Bower dependencies? It seems unnecessary to put these in the vendor folder and check them in to Git when they’re available online.

  2. All of the dependencies and vendor scripts get compiled into a single vendor.js file and this is awful for debugging. I’m not even done including dependencies and my vendor.js file is over 80,000 lines. Trying to open and debug that in Chrome is a huge pain. Is there a way to keep the dependencies as separate files in development mode?

  3. Is there a way to get more fine grained with Ember imports like in the Ember source code? For instance, I have this code currently:

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Route.extend({
	
});

But I would like to be able to do something like this:

import Route from 'ember-routing/system/route';

export default Route.extend({
	
});

I think it allows one to more easily assess what features a particular module is using, not only from manual inspection but from searching with my IDE as well.

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