Check out this addon: https://github.com/pangratz/ember-cli-htmlbars-inline-precompile https://github.com/pangratz/ember-cli-htmlbars-inline-precom... We've st

Check out this addon: https://github.com/pangratz/ember-cli-htmlbars-inline-precompile https://github.com/pangratz/ember-cli-htmlbars-inline-precom... We've started using it for inline templates in tests, but it should work just great with inline templates for components. The pods convention you described definitely helps though.