EmberJS app and Broccoli

Question

I have an Ember app. My question is regarding the usage of Broccoli.

Now it is said that Broccoli is the default build tool for Ember-CLI

But I do not find Brocfile.js anywhere within my project.

Just wanted to understand how is Broccoli really used within an Ember project. Also in what practical scenarios do we have to change/define any configurations related to that

Answer 1

ember-cli is basically wrapping broccoli. Your ember-cli-build.js is basically a modified version of the brocfile. You can easily extend it with tools like broccoli-merge-trees or broccoli-funnel.

To modify the broccoli pipeline you usually hook into it after ember-cli. app.toTree() returns a normal broccoli tree, you're free to extend this with broccoli-merge-trees:

return new MergeTrees([app.toTree(), myCustomTree]);