• Ember.js v4.12 or above
• Ember CLI v4.12 or above
• @embroider/compat 3.4.3 or above (optional)
• Node.js v18 or above

You can add custom plugins to be used during transpilation of the addon/ or addon-test-support/ trees of your addon (or the app/ and tests/ trees of an application) by registering a custom AST transform.

var SomeTransform = require('./some-path/transform');

module.exports = {
  name: 'my-addon-name',

  included: function() {
    // we have to wrap these in an object so the ember-cli
    // registry doesn't try to call `new` on them (new is actually
    // called within htmlbars when compiling a given template).
    this.app.registry.add('htmlbars-ast-plugin', {
      name: 'some-transform',
      plugin: SomeTransform
    });
    
    this._super.included.apply(this, arguments);
  }
};

• name - String. The name of the AST transform for debugging purposes.
• plugin - A function of type ASTPluginBuilder.
• dependencyInvalidation - Boolean. A flag that indicates the AST Plugin may, on a per-template basis, depend on other files that affect its output.
• cacheKey - function that returns any JSON-compatible value - The value returned is used to invalidate the persistent cache across restarts, usually in the case of a dependency or configuration change.
• baseDir - () => string. A function that returns the directory on disk of the npm module for the plugin. If provided, a basic cache invalidation is performed if any of the dependencies change (e.g. due to a npm install/upgrade).

Plugins that set the dependencyInvalidation option to true can provide function for the plugin of type ASTDependencyPlugin as given below.

Note: the plugin function is invoked without a value for this in context.

import {ASTPluginBuilder, ASTPlugin} from "@glimmer/syntax/dist/types/lib/parser/tokenizer-event-handlers";

export type ASTDependencyPlugin = ASTPluginWithDepsBuilder | ASTPluginBuilderWithDeps;

export interface ASTPluginWithDepsBuilder {
  (env: ASTPluginEnvironment): ASTPluginWithDeps;
}

export interface ASTPluginBuilderWithDeps extends ASTPluginBuilder {
  /**
   * @see {ASTPluginWithDeps.dependencies} below.
   **/
  dependencies(relativePath): string[];
}

export interface ASTPluginWithDeps extends ASTPlugin {
  /**
   * If this method exists, it is called with the relative path to the current
   * file just before processing starts. Use this method to reset the
   * dependency tracking state associated with the file.
   */
  resetDependencies?(relativePath: string): void;
  /**
   * This method is called just as the template finishes being processed.
   *
   * @param relativePath {string} A relative path to the file that may have dependencies.
   * @return {string[]} paths to files that are a dependency for the given
   * file. Any relative paths returned by this method are taken to be relative
   * to the file that was processed.
   */
  dependencies(relativePath: string): string[];
}

You can still provide a custom path to the template compiler (e.g. to test custom template compiler tweaks in an application) by:

// ember-cli-build.js

module.exports = function(defaults) {
  let app = new EmberApp(defaults, {
    'ember-cli-htmlbars': {
      templateCompilerPath: `some_path/to/ember-template-compiler.js`,
    }
  });
};

var HtmlbarsCompiler = require('ember-cli-htmlbars');

var templateTree = new HtmlbarsCompiler('app/templates', {
  isHTMLBars: true,

  // provide the templateCompiler that is paired with your Ember version
  templateCompiler: require('./bower_components/ember/ember-template-compiler')
});