intro-to-yeoman-talk

Front end development is finally fun

by @mraaroncruz

http://aaroncruz.com

Tools

I love tools I like to build my own to do things like

• remind me to turn off my time tracking software
• search a bunch of whois at once
• ~ 100 bash aliases
• whenever I have to do the same thing twice

Front end dev has been painful

wget your dependencies

Enter Bower

manages dependencies for

• javascript
• CSS
• Font Libraries ex. Font Awesome

Tons of great things came along

• SASS
• CoffeeScript
• Compass
• Livereload
• Sprockets/Javascript Concat tools

Enter Grunt

Grunt is a task running tool similar to

• jake (javascript)
• make (C, others)
• rake (ruby)

Common tasks with grunt

• watching for file changes > some action
• compiling SASS or Coffeescript
• restarting you application server
• concatting javascript/CSS files
• whatever the hell you want (easy to make custom tasks)

So what is Yeoman?

Grunt + Bower

a match made in heaven

But wait... There's MORE

Yeoman itself is a project generator

• angular express
• Flask (python web framework similar to express)
• laravel PHP framework
• this slide deck (inception?)

So many community plugins

http://yeoman.io/community-generators.html

We will build an express app using angular

Pure Awesomeness

Thank you

@mraaroncruzhttp://github.com/pferdefleisch