The Yeoman Monthly Digest

Addy Osmani
Addy Osmani

Allo! Allo! This past month saw the Yeoman community grow to 472 generators. We’re excited to see so much passion for project scaffolding and are working on some new features to enable generators to extend and build on top of each other.

We’ll talk more about this soon, but for now here’s this month’s round-up of featured articles, generators and team blogs. We hope they’re useful!

From the Team blog

Exploring A Generator For Gulp.js

Generators New Year Cleanup!

Updates To Our Grunt, Bootstrap & Other Generators

Yeoman Q1 2014 Roadmap and Roadmap For The Angular Generator

What's New In The Backbone Generator

Sindre Sorhus also created envcheck - a useful environment checker that will double-check you have everything needed to run Yeoman smoothly.

Environment check screenshot

Articles

This month the community have been building full-stack web apps, Hybrid apps and even a remote desktop client with Yeoman generators. We enjoyed reading:

A Remote Desktop Client with AngularJS and Yeoman

Angular Fullstack 1.2.0 available now

Automating React With Yeoman and Grunt

Cordova + Yeoman Web Best Practices v2.0

Building a new Yeoman generator

Goodbye, Sprockets! A Grunt-based Rails Asset Pipeline

Using Yeoman along with the ng-book

Yo Polymer – A Whirlwind Tour Of Web Component Tooling

Should Yeoman Split Up It's Gruntfiles?

Samsung Smart TV app generator for Yeoman

Using Yeoman to scaffold out new websites

Announcing generator-angular-require

Web App with dream team; AngularJS, Cordova, Yeoman & Topcoat

Using the European npm mirror

Simple Scaffolding with the Ignite UI Yeoman Generator

Improving Your Development Workflow with Yeoman

AngularJS, PhoneGap and my mobile toolset

This month also saw new generators released for KrakenJS, Meteor, ChaplinJS and a number of other projects. Some of our choice picks:

Scaffold KrakenJS projects

A ChaplinJS generator

Scaffold ESLint rules

Scaffolding for Meteor projects

Scaffold Gulp plugins

Scaffold Gulp files

Kendo generator-kendo-ui

Radian ~ A scalable AngularJS framework with a Yeoman generator

Scaffolding for Android

Scaffold Angular + Firebase apps

A generator for DocPad projects

Automating and Provisioning AWS Infrastructure for HTML5 Apps With Yeoman

A generator for mobile webapps

Scaffold slides with the Google I/O template

Yeoman WordPress theme generator – kickstart a grunting SCSS theme

Scaffold Closure projects

Scaffolding for Gulp webapps

An ExpressionEngine Add-on generator

Scaffold AMD projects

Scaffold Finatra apps

Scaffold pattern libraries

Finally, updates have also been made to our official Ember.js, Mobile WebApp and Karma generators. Changelogs for all of them will be landing soon.

Until next time

If you’ve written an article, given a talk or created a generator you think would be useful to others, please feel free to share it with us on Twitter. We’re always interested in seeing how our tools are used.

Until the next time we run yo digest, happy scaffolding and don't be afraid - Yeoman is here to help, not replace you :D

I’m genuinely scared that one day I’m going to be replaced by a @yeoman generator. - I Am Developer (@iamdevloper) February 7, 2014

With thanks for the rest of the Yeoman team for their reviews