Fastest way of starting an ember project?

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I am just getting started with ember and it is a bit refreshing. It is great to get started by typing ember init, ember s, ember g route and see the effects of your changes instantly.

The problem is that every time I have a new idea, or want to test a new ember concept, throwaway project, it takes forever to start a new project. It kills my momentum when I have to wait nearly 5 minutes from ember init to working with a new proof of concept.

My current workaround is to create a symlink to bower and NPM and run ember init without bower and NPM. This seems to work for the most part, but when I install an add-on such as ember-cli-nwjs, It still takes a fair bit of time. I’m not sure what is happening in the background or why NPM is running again even when I match the modules.

Does anyone else have this problem or have their own workarounds?

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The state of javascript package management is awful.

Make sure you’re using npm 3, it should be faster. Or install a local npm cache like https://github.com/nolanlawson/local-npm

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I went through exactly the same thing and created a github project to clone from.

I wrote about it here: http://emberigniter.com/speeding-up-ember-cli-slow-project-creation/ , although it’s true that I should update that to the latest Embers.

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Disable npm progress bar, it speeds up npm installs significantly. Run

npm set progress=false

According to this https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/11283 it speeds it by 41% (almost half the time).

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