Javascript Tools Bower, Grunt, Yeoman

bower is a package manager for installing client-side libraries in your server-side environment . This post has a good introduction.

bower is a package manager for client side technologies. It can be used to search , install , uninstall web assets like JavaScript , HTML , and CSS. It is not an opinionated tool and leaves lot of choice to the developers. There are various tools built on top of bower like YeoMan and Grunt

C:\Users\dmbl>npm install -g bower
C:\Users\dmbl>bower

Bower : "offers the opportunity to search for packages you may need in your project (for example,bower search underscore to find Underscore.js) and install them in your project (for example, bower install –save underscore"

Grunt

command line build tool. It can help us automate repetitive tasks. We can think of it as JavaScript alternative to Make or Ant. It can perform tasks like minification, compilation , unit testing, linting, etc.

gruntjs-workflow : "Grunt.js is a fantastic task-based command line tool written in JavaScript on top of the wonderful Node.js platform. You can leverage Grunt.js to script away all of your grunt work"
grunt tasks : "Grunt JS is a task runner, which means it is designed to run tasks for you. It’s your little slave bot, and you can tell it what to do, and when to do it!"

Yeoman

As stated on their website, Yeoman 1.0 is more than just a tool. It's a workflow; a collection of tools and best practices working in harmony to make developing for the web even better

AKA Yo - introduction to yeoman yo


C:\Users\dmbl>npm install -g yo


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