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Discussion on: The difference between ember serve and npm run start

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Jeldrik Hanschke

Very helpful insights. Thanks for sharing.

There is one additional difference between npm run start and ember serve: Ember CLI must be installed globally for ember serve to work. npm run start also works with having Ember CLI installed as a project dependency only. This may help with onboarding new developers and to speed up CI. For CI it's most likely not about ember serve but ember test vs. npm run test.