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Comment by mrgreenfur | Hacker News Reader

Is this for Node.js only? They keep saying 'web apps' but never explicitly that it's not. NPM is node, right? (sorry, not too familiar with Node)

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Yeoman is purely development-time workflow tooling. It and its ecosystem (the "generator-XXXX" npm modules) use Node.js as the runtime on the development host. Typical Yeoman use would be 1) during development to speed dev, testing, etc., and 2) to build minified assets for deployment into production.

EDIT: Removed confusing "client-side" reference caught by 9oliYQjP -- thanks!

Ah, thanks!

Actually, while client-side development is where it has gained the most popularity, I use some Yeoman generators for setting up some backends. Here is one such example that scaffolds a Node project: https://github.com/yeoman/generator-node. There's really nothing stopping you from using Yeoman for live reloading of a frontend and backend stack.

Yeoman can be used on any project, not just Node.js ones. They have a lot of generators: http://yeoman.io/community-generators.html

Ahh, thanks much. Those generators are making it click.

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Yes and yes.

EDIT: No and yes.

Your first "yes" is incorrect. Yeoman installs through npm and I imagine it runs on Node.js, but it can be used for many different projects: http://yeoman.io/community-generators.html

There are examples for CakePHP and Flask but none for Rails. Do you know of any? I have a simple traditional Rails which I am looking into porting to use Backbone and Rails as backend.

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