docs/route.js Presence Causes API Documentation To Not Be Found/Error

[nadnoslen]

I always use Ember's generators, even when creating my Dummy app's routes. Every time that I spun up ember-cli-addon-docs I'd translate the getting started instructions to the ember generate ... commands.

This caused me to run an ember g --dummy route docs which politely creates my template.hbs and route.js. What I discovered was that if the route.js was present, my API documentation in the sidebar would only show up if I started at the application-index route and navigated directly to the docs route.

1. When the docs route would refresh, my API doc links in the sidebar would disappear.
2. If I was viewing a specific api-doc page and reloaded it, I'd get the following error: Error while processing route: docs.api.item Cannot read property 'get' of null TypeError: Cannot read property 'get' of null.

The fix for this was for me to remove my empty docs/route.js.

We might want to mention this in the getting started documentation for ember-cli-addon-docs but even more we might want to fix this. I don't feel that the mere presence of an empty docs/route.js should somehow impede the model() hook from firing.

I am happy to fork and fix this if someone knows what might be the ailing cause and can point me in the correct direction. I too am happy to update the getting started section of your docs with this warning message.

Thanks again for this addon.