As far as I remember, I came across the term scaffolding (available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaffold_(programming)) while reading about Ruby on Rails framework. Scaffolding generates the boilerplate code for us, thereby reducing the grunt work we have to do. For example, it might generate a controller, some views, and the database table based on a model; or it might generate an agreed upon (based on the best practices for that language or framework) folder structure for us at the start of a project.

Yeoman (available at http://yeoman.io/) is a scaffolding tool for writing modern web applications. It is available as an NPM package, so you can install it globally (for a machine) using NPM as follows:

npm install –g yo

The Yeoman workflow comprises of three tools (which help us automate the three required tasks as discussed previously):

Yeoman also provides...