What's Yeoman? Yeoman helps you to kickstart new projects, prescribing best practices and tools to help you stay productive. To do so, we provide a generator ecosystem.

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. Yeoman is language agnostic.

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.

Build this sample app with Yeoman. The sample web app you’ll build today will be a implementation of TodoMVC. You will be able to add todos, delete todos, filter todos, and together we’ll add a feature to save todos offline. What's in this codelab? We will build the above TodoMVC app from scratch.

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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 .

Yeoman offers a base generator which you can extend to implement your own behavior. This base generator will add most of the functionalities you’d expect to ease your task. In the generator’s index.js file, here’s how you extend the base generator:

Yeoman takes care of configuring your config files and setups Sass, CoffeeScript and Require.js out of the box. With additional features like wiring, an improved serve and init . Developers are free to customize any configurations initialized by Yeoman.

Along with using npm install directly, you can search for generators via the Yeoman interactive menu. Run yo and select Install a generator to search for published generators.