Yeoman 1.0 Released

I don't understand why people need all this. Setting up the boilerplate for a web app manually doesn't take any time at all and only needs to be done once so what is there to automate? Am I the only one still doing it the old school way? Please enlighten me.

Duplicated:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6263380" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6263380</a>

This is great - I&#x27;ve been using Yeoman since the first 1.0rc, and have to say that the tool chain is excellent and covers all the main parts of development with ease. Easy to bootstrap a new project, intelligent defaults for code organization, testing and minification for production.<p>I haven&#x27;t found anything else that comes close for solely front end dev work.

Yeoman is fantastic...I used it several months ago when deciding (foolishly, in retrospect) to learn both CoffeeScript and AngularJS at the same time while making an app. I had never put the effort into setting up grunt tasks manually...so working with automated building and testing were things I never had while developing with JS (which you can take to mean that my past work with JS has been mostly trivial).<p>Besides just being a great package overall, Yeoman really helped me appreciate how what seem like trivial niceties -- the speed of auto-build vs. stopping and restarting the local server and hitting Refresh -- can really make the difference between gradually losing interest because of the accumulation of small inconveniences and actually enjoying the development process enough to finish a project.

Love Yeoman. For the love of god, how do I create &#x27;pretty permalink&#x27; (Jekyll Style) with it - &quot;about.html&quot; to create &quot;&#x2F;about&#x2F;index.html&quot;?

Is this for Node.js only? They keep saying &#x27;web apps&#x27; but never explicitly that it&#x27;s not. NPM is node, right? (sorry, not too familiar with Node)

I just hope the generators API is now stable. I tried looking at the source of the various in-built generators to build a generator for BB10 apps, but every different generator was doing things in its own chaotic fashion. I got my generator somewhat working before future versions broke it.

Is there a changelog somewhere of what&#x27;s added? One thing that&#x27;s always frustrated me about this project is the lack of release notes on each new version.

I am sure this is good, but just how much it pulls down to do something basic is ridiculous:<p><pre><code> $ yo webapp $ npm ls | wc -l 240</code></pre>

Nice. I see they reverted the ng-boilerplate-based generators for AngularJS though. Hopefully that gets put in again soon.

Is there a difference between 1.0 and 1.0.0-rc.1.1?

Can someone enlighten how is Yeoman vs grunt?

does it work with latest node v0.10.17 ?

Should I be ashamed or proud that I believe in writing my own tools for my craft?