<s>
Yeoman	B-Language
is	O
an	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
client-side	O
scaffolding	O
tool	O
for	O
web	B-Application
applications	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Yeoman	B-Language
runs	O
as	O
a	O
command-line	B-Application
interface	I-Application
written	O
for	O
Node.js	B-Language
and	O
combines	O
several	O
functions	O
into	O
one	O
place	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
generating	O
a	O
starter	O
template	O
,	O
managing	O
dependencies	O
,	O
running	O
unit	O
tests	O
,	O
providing	O
a	O
local	O
development	O
server	O
,	O
and	O
optimizing	O
production	O
code	O
for	O
deployment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Yeoman	B-Language
was	O
released	O
at	O
Google	B-Application
I/O	I-Application
2012	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Yeoman	B-Language
combines	O
several	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
tools	O
in	O
an	O
attempt	O
to	O
streamline	O
many	O
aspects	O
of	O
the	O
web	O
development	O
process	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Using	O
a	O
"	O
generator	O
"	O
concept	O
inspired	O
by	O
Ruby	B-Application
on	I-Application
Rails	I-Application
,	O
Yeoman	B-Language
first	O
creates	O
a	O
basic	O
project	O
structure	O
with	O
vendor	O
libraries	O
included	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
most	O
basic	O
Yeoman	B-Language
generator	O
supplies	O
the	O
HTML5	B-Application
Boilerplate	I-Application
,	O
Normalize.css	O
,	O
the	O
jQuery	B-Language
JavaScript	B-Language
library	O
,	O
and	O
Modernizr	B-Language
as	O
a	O
basic	O
template	O
for	O
developers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Yeoman	B-Language
also	O
runs	O
interactively	O
,	O
asking	O
the	O
developer	O
if	O
they	O
would	O
like	O
additional	O
components	O
such	O
as	O
Twitter	B-Application
Bootstrap	I-Application
or	O
RequireJS	O
(	O
a	O
library	O
to	O
support	O
Asynchronous	B-Language
Module	I-Language
Definition	I-Language
)	O
included	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
More	O
sophisticated	O
generators	O
exist	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
ones	O
which	O
scaffold	O
out	O
a	O
client-side	O
MVC	O
(	O
Model-View-Controller	O
)	O
framework	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
the	O
AngularJS	B-Application
or	O
Backbone	B-Language
JavaScript	B-Language
libraries	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Yeoman	B-Language
is	O
meant	O
to	O
be	O
modular	O
such	O
that	O
anyone	O
can	O
design	O
a	O
generator	O
to	O
create	O
a	O
template	O
for	O
a	O
particular	O
type	O
of	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
More	O
than	O
5600	O
generators	O
have	O
been	O
created	O
by	O
the	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
community	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Beyond	O
providing	O
a	O
template	O
to	O
scaffold	O
projects	O
,	O
Yeoman	B-Language
also	O
helps	O
with	O
intermediary	O
phases	O
of	O
web	B-Application
application	I-Application
development	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Yeoman	B-Language
lints	B-Device
code	O
for	O
potential	O
problems	O
using	O
JSHint	O
,	O
runs	O
unit	O
tests	O
,	O
and	O
provides	O
a	O
development	O
server	O
for	O
working	O
on	O
an	O
application	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Finally	O
,	O
Yeoman	B-Language
also	O
offers	O
a	O
build	B-Application
automation	I-Application
process	O
featuring	O
optimizations	O
such	O
as	O
minification	B-Language
and	O
concatenation	O
of	O
script	O
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
of	O
these	O
features	O
use	O
pre-configured	O
tasks	O
for	O
the	O
Grunt	B-Language
JavaScript	B-Language
task	B-Application
runner	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Yeoman	B-Language
is	O
an	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
project	O
whose	O
code	O
is	O
hosted	O
on	O
GitHub	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
of	O
the	O
primary	O
contributors	O
are	O
on	O
the	B-Application
Google	I-Application
Chrome	B-Application
Developer	O
Relations	O
team	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
Addy	O
Osmani	O
,	O
Paul	O
Irish	O
,	O
and	O
Eric	O
Bidelman	O
.	O
</s>
