Chapter 2. Getting Started

This chapter is going to cover getting started with Yeoman generators. We will explore the four most popular official generators, their options and the subgenerators they expose, and the purpose of using them. This chapter is going to cover the following topics:

• The basics of the Yeoman workflow
• Installing the following commonly-used official generators:
  • The generator-webapp: This is used to create a generic web application
  • The generator-angular: This is used to create an AngularJS web application
  • The generator-backbone: This is used to create a Backbone.js web application
  • The generator-ember: This is used to create an Ember.js web application
• The subgenerators that these modules expose
• We do not cover any of the grunt tasks that are configured with the projects after they are scaffolded
• The life cycle of creation to deployment using these generators