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Yeoman 1.0 is more than just a tool. It's a workflow; a collection of tools and best practices working in harmony to make developing for the web even better.
Our workflow is comprised of three tools for improving your productivity and satisfaction when building a web app: yo (the scaffolding tool), grunt (the build tool) and bower (for package management).
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Yo scaffolds out a new application, writing your Grunt configuration and pulling in relevant Grunt tasks that you might need for your build.
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Grunt is used to build, preview and test your project, thanks to help from tasks curated by the Yeoman team and grunt-contrib.
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Bower is used for dependency management, so that you no longer have to manually download and manage your scripts.
All three of these tools are developed and maintained separately, but work well together as part of our prescribed workflow for keeping you effective.
A complete getting started guide is available but for those looking to get up and running quickly, make sure you have Node.js and Git installed (plus Ruby and Compass too if you plan to use it) then install the required tools globally by running:
npm install -g yo grunt-cli bower
yo can generate several types of applications, but it needs help from plug-ins, or "generators" to get the job done. To scaffold a web application, you'll need to grab the web app generator:
npm install -g generator-webapp
You can install additional generators with npm. For example, to install the AngularJS generator: npm install -g generator-angular. Run yo for more information.
A complete workflow might look like this:
yo webapp # scaffold out a skeleton web app project
bower install underscore # install a dependency for your project from Bower
grunt # build the application for deploymentOr with the AngularJS generator:
npm install -g generator-angular # install generator
yo angular # scaffold out a AngularJS project
bower install angular-ui # install a dependency for your project from Bower
grunt test # test your app
grunt server # preview your app
grunt # build the application for deploymentIf you were previously using Yeoman 0.9.x, you may have noticed a few things have changed. A migration guide is available to help you move over to 1.0. We've also written up some of the reasons behind our move.
We are more than happy to accept external contributions to the project in the form of feedback, bug reports and even better - pull requests.
At this time we are primarily focusing on improving the user-experience and stability of Yeoman for our 1.0 beta release. Please keep this in mind when submitting feature requests, which we're happy to consider for future versions.