The webs scaffolding tool for modern webapps | Yeoman The Yeoman workflow comprises three types of tools for improving your productivity and satisfaction when building a web app: the scaffolding tool (yo), the build tool (npm scripts, Gulp, Grunt etc) and the package manager (like npm and Bower)
Getting started with Yeoman Yeoman is a generic scaffolding system allowing the creation of any kind of app It allows for rapidly getting started on new projects and streamlines the maintenance of existing projects
Step 1: Set up your dev environment - Yeoman Most of your interactions with Yeoman will be through the command line Run commands in the Terminal app if you’re on Mac, your shell in Linux, or cmder (preferably) PowerShell cmd exe if you are on Windows
Frequently Asked Questions - Yeoman How does Yeoman differ from build tools, such as Grunt or Gulp? Yeoman builds upon a number of open-source tools to offer an opinionated workflow that helps developers achieve common tasks more easily
Generators - Yeoman Your generator will automatically show up in the list if it meets the following criteria The list is populated every hour The name should be generator-your-unique-name This means it should begin with `generator-` and be followed by a unique (to npm) name Scoped name support is coming in the future A good description If you forked the generator, it should describe what is different and
Learning resources - Yeoman In case you're looking for some more persuasion that Yeoman can help automate your JavaScript development workflow, you might be interested in Jesse Warden's crash course on Bower and Grunt
Support - Yeoman Yeoman provides an optimized scaffolding and workflow experience for creating compelling web applications Developers use Yeoman together with build tools, for building their projects and Bower for package management
Working With The File System - Yeoman As asynchronous APIs are harder to use, Yeoman provide a synchronous file-system API where every file gets written to an in-memory file system and are only written to disk once when Yeoman is done running
Step 2: Install a Yeoman generator You can install Yeoman generators using the npm command and there are over 3500+ generators now available, many of which have been written by the open-source community