Chapter 1, Modern Workflows for Modern Webapps, is an overview of the three core tools used in the Yeoman workflow—Yo, Bower, and Grunt. We cover how to use these tools in development and how to incorporate the workflow into new or existing projects, followed by an example of each of the features in Yeoman.

Chapter 2, Getting Started, begins with installing Yeoman for development and an overview on the AngularJS, Backbone.js, Ember.js, and webapp generators, the options and subgenerators it uses, and examples of using each generator to start the project.

Chapter 3, My Angular Project, starts out with covering the concepts of Angular and the anatomy of an AngularJS application. We will use the generator-angular to scaffold an extendable AngularJS application that uses directives, services, and factories. We will cover setting up a CRUD application with unit tests that use the Karma runner.

Chapter 4, My Backbone Project, covers the anatomy of a Backbone.js project and the concepts behind the library. We create a Backbone application to perform CRUD operations on a data source that is unit tested using Jasmine. The project uses CoffeeScript, Require.js, and AMD to create a well-structured app ready for extending.

Chapter 5, My Ember Project, starts out by creating a new Ember.js project. We then cover how an Ember application is structured and the concepts around the framework, configuring a test environment that is used to run both unit and integration tests.

Chapter 6, Custom Generators, covers the Yeoman generator API and the common methods used when developing generators. We also cover installing and invoking the generator-generator to create a custom Yeoman generator with option prompts that scaffold a custom application based on users' feedback. We cover how to handle testing the generators using nodeunit and then we publish the generator to npm.

Chapter 7, Custom Libraries, covers using Yeoman to create custom libraries that are deployed to either Bower or npm. We learn how to use the Node.js generator and the CommonJS generator to create a Node module, followed by a client-side jQuery plugin that handles sending CRUD operations to a Node REST API server.

Chapter 8, Tasks with Grunt, starts out by covering all the available options when using the Grunt command. We install two Yeoman Grunt generators: the Gruntfile generator that enables adding Grunt to existing projects, and the Grunt plugin generator. We cover creating a custom Grunt task that is then deployed to npm along with unit tests using the nodeunit framework.

Chapter 9, Yeoman Tips and Tricks, aims to cover the holes from the Yeoman generators and specific projects. We cover adding code coverage to a Backbone.js project, as well as setting up Protractor to run end-2-end testing for our Angular project.

You will need to have the following installed software on your development box in order to properly run the examples and tutorials in the chapters:

This book is for newbies and intermediate web developers looking to speed up the process when it comes to creating web applications of various frameworks. You should have basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The examples in this book will use jQuery style selectors and methods, so some jQuery experience is needed. The tools in this book involve the command line, so having basic knowledge about using the shell to invoke commands on a system is required. As long as you understand basic principles about structuring HTML and OO JavaScript applications, you should have no problem following the step-by-step examples in the chapters.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The bower.json file is how Bower manages the project's dependencies."

A block of code is set as follows:

<div class="header">
  <ul class="nav nav-pills pull-right">
    <li ng-repeat="item in App.menu" 
      ng-class="{'active': App.location.path() === item.href}">
      <a ng-href = "#{{item.href}}"> {{item.title}} </a>
    </li>
  </ul>
  <h3 class="text-muted"> {{ App.sitetitle }} </h3>
</div>

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

require 'scripts/config'
LearningYeomanCh5 = window.LearningYeomanCh5 =  
  Ember.Application.create(
  LOG_VIEW_LOOKUPS: true
  LOG_ACTIVE_GENERATION: true
  LOG_BINDINGS: true
  config: window.Config
)

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ npm install -g generator-webapp

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "See for yourself; open Chrome Developer Tools and click on the Network tab."

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