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Lineman vs Yeoman: What are the differences?
What is Lineman? A tool to help you build fat-client webapp projects. Lineman is a command-line utility that is hyper-focused on helping web developers build first-class JavaScript web applications. Lineman provides a thin wrapper around a number of client-side productivity tools (primarily Express, Grunt, and Testem), with the goal of helping developers focus on writing awesome web apps instead of worrying about workflow configuration.
What is Yeoman? A set of tools for automating development workflow. Yeoman is a robust and opinionated set of tools, libraries, and a workflow that can help developers quickly build beautiful, compelling web apps. It is comprised of yo - a scaffolding tool using our generator system, grunt - a task runner for your build process and bower for dependency management.
Lineman and Yeoman can be categorized as "Front End Scaffolding" tools.
Lineman and Yeoman are both open source tools. It seems that Yeoman with 9.23K GitHub stars and 758 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Lineman with 1.21K GitHub stars and 88 GitHub forks.
Pros of Lineman
- Open source1
Pros of Yeoman
- Lightning-fast scaffolding121
- Automation83
- Great build process78
- Open source57
- Yo49
- Unit Testing8
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Cons of Lineman
Cons of Yeoman
- Even harder to debug than Javascript1