How to create your first Yeoman Generator

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How to create your first Yeoman Generator Ruy Adorno | @ruyadorno

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What is Yeoman? • A scaffolding tool • A project to provide developers an improved tooling workflow • A platform with hundreds of recipes • An open-source initiative

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Awesome maintainers • Addy Osmani • Sindre Sorhus • Pascal Hartig • Stephen Sawchuk • Brian Ford • Eddie Monge • Paul Irish • Hemanth.HM • Revath S Kumar • Jimmy Moon • Frederick Ros • Mickael Daniel • Eric Bidelman • Matija Marohnić • Kevin Mårtensson Simon Boudrias

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What are Generators? • Scaffolding recipes • Customizable • Composable • Independent open-source projects

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Understanding the tools • Command-line tool • npm install -g yo • Executes a generator

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• Generators • npm install -g generator-webapp • npm install -g generator-angular • npm install -g generator-... Understanding the tools

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Understanding the tools • Most of the available generators comes with a selection of great tooling and best practices for web development

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Let’s build a Generator • You can find the live-coding generator on GitHub: https://github.com/ruyadorno/generator-jsmontreal

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Lessons learned • Having private generators for your internal projects is an amazing idea • Be careful with features you add to your generators

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Merci! @ruyadorno http://ruyadorno.com