Yeoman: Modern workflows for modern webapps

It has many capabilities useful to the modern web dev workflow.

Of most note to me, it acts as a "project creation" tool. AKA "A Scaffolding generator."

It will pull things like HTML5 Boilerplate, jQuery, Backbone.js, etc down from github, and properly generate the project files you need to start a project with those dependencies.

You dont have to worry about how any of it fits together, it will get you up and running with the latest version of everything with a simple commandline.

It also does things like minify css and javascript, as well as compiling LESS/SASS and Coffeescript.

They are unfortunately trying to make a single tool that solves many problems, when they might be better served by making many tools, that are all good at 1 thing each... I'm still waiting for them to launch this so I can see how that all pans out.

https://github.com/sym3tri/pith

I really want Yeoman to take off, in particular because I really want one of these tools to become the breakout hit. I'd rather everyone be focusing on improving one tool instead of all this effort going diffuse across a bunch of different solutions. I'm a python dev, and I thank the stars that pip became so standard. (Not that this is a direct analog to pip, but pip provides a subset of this functionality when it comes to packaging.)

One note: the Ember init is waaaay basic. I know that these are going to be community maintained, but I would have hoped that the Ember generator bundled with this initial release would have included at least commonjs or requirejs integration.

[1]http://www.brunch.io [2]https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate