So, it seems that Glitch and Ember both reserve the term ‘app’.
If I install ember-cli in the console try to initialize an Ember.js application I get the following error:
$ ember init
We currently do not support a name of `app`.
This is because the name of the directory is assumed to be the name of my new app by ember-cli. Any ideas on a work around?
hey dwk,
do you still get the error if you try ember new app or ember new my-new-app? (from https://ember-cli.com/user-guide/#create-a-new-project)
Yep, it is looking at the parent directory to create some globals, and app is a reserved global for Ember:
I also filed ember-cli/issues/7293 as ember-cli should allow me to override this behavior.
I would suggest creating a subdirectory, possibly with a small name, like just e (for ember), and run ember init on that subdirectory instead.
Handling package.json and stuff like that would become a bit trickier, but it should work.
Yep, that works, did an init in the subdirectoy, then copied the results back to the parent directory. Will share a bare app configured for Glitch once it is running so others can avoid this.
