ember-cli addon bower dependency

Ember-CLI 1.13.8

I'm having trouble loading an addon i've just created into a separate test app. (This is my first addon.)

Because i'm developing locally i used npm link like so:

    $ cd ember-cli-foo
    $ npm link
    $ cd ../test-app
    $ npm link ember-cli-foo

And npm has created the link under node_modules.

The addon also has a bower dependency. I read somewhere that the main index.js inside the addon dir should look like:

    /* jshint node: true */
    'use strict';

    module.exports = {
      name: 'ember-cli-foo',

      included: function(app) {
        this._super.included(app);
        app.import(app.bowerDirectory + "/foo/web/foo.js");
      }
    };

And a blueprint:

    module.exports = {
      description: ""

      afterInstall: function(options) {
        return addBowerPackageToProject("foo");
      }
    };

But when i try running ember serve ...

    Path or pattern "bower_components/foo/web/foo.js" did not match any files

Realising that i likely needed to point to the addon's bower_components, i tried prepending to the import path:

    app.import("node_modules/ember-cli-foo/" + app.bowerDirectory + "/foo/web/foo.js");

But that just got me:

    Path or pattern "node_modules/ember-cli-foo/bower_components/foo/web/foo.js" did not match any files

That path is correct, though. I then tried:

    $ ember install ember-cli-foo

... which produces:

    Registry returned 404 for GET on https://registry.npmjs.org/ember-cli-foo

Can anyone tell me what i'm missing? How can i install the addon into a test app using the local npm link?

UPDATE

Perhaps i'ma bit closer. I found this tip t get ember to run the bluprint:

$ ember g ember-cli-foo

And indeed ember replied, "installing ember-cli-foo". However,when i run ember serve i get the same error about not finding the dependency, no matter the path i feed it. The page where i found the above tip suggests the same as what i'd started with.

Doing ember install ember-cli-foo still results in a complaint that the package can't be found on npm's server.

UPDATE II

I deleted the app and started over:

$ ember new test
$ cd test
$ npm link ember-cli-foo
$ ember g ember-cli-foo
$ ember serve
...
ENOENT, no such file or directory '/home/bally/dev/apps/test/tmp/concat_with_maps-input_base_path-RopBTsxP.tmp/0/bower_components/foo/web/foo.js'

Indeed, tmp is empty.

$ ember install ember-cli-foo

Same complaint--trying to fetch it remotely.

When doing addon development locally you have to manually create the entry in the conusming app's bower.json referencing foo.js. Unfortunately you can't do ember install ember-cli-foo until after the addon exists on either github or npm.