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- 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
- 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
- Interacting With The User | Yeoman
By default Yeoman runs on a terminal, but it also supports custom user interfaces that different tools can provide For example, nothing prevents a Yeoman generator from being run inside of a graphical tool like an editor or a standalone app
- Testing Generators | Yeoman
Read on to learn more about the testing helpers Yeoman add to ease the pain of unit testing a generator The examples below assume you use Mocha in BDD mode The global concept should apply easily to your unit testing framework of choice Organizing your tests It is important to keep your tests simple and easily editable
- Step 5: Preview your app in the browser - Yeoman
To preview your web app in your favourite web browser, you don’t have to do anything special to set up a local web server on your computer — it’s part of Yeoman
- Managing Configuration - Yeoman
These configurations can be stored in the yo-rc json file through the Yeoman Storage API This API is accessible through the generator config object Here are some common methods you’ll use Methods this config save() This method will write the configuration to the yo-rc json file If the file doesn’t exist yet, the save method will
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