Building HTML5 Apps with Yeoman and Backbone

I understand the advantages of using these tools but isn't it too much ? Node, Npm,Yeoman, Grunt, Bower just to bootstrap some font-end code, if you don't use node.js for back-end you have to use other tools in back-end development too ( composer, phpunit, gem, rake etc... you name it... ). Sometimes i feel like we use tools just to use them.<p>edit: Just to clarify : I'm not saying don't use any of them and don't organize/automate tasks and code like monkey...

A quick word of warning for anyone following this guide. You should never sudo npm install. That's giving root privileges to anyone that care's to upload code to the npm package registry. npm should work fine without sudo.

You should take a look at aura.js (<a href="http://github.com/aurajs/aura" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/aurajs/aura</a>). Abstracts many of the steps of this article (require.js, bower...) and offers a decoupled architecture for scalable and well structured apps. There's also a yeoman generator, and they have an extensions system that seamlessly integrate handlebars.js for example.

This is probably irrational, but it's always annoyed me that Yeoman is little more than a package.json file and small bash script yet has a professionally designed logo.