CHAPTER 3

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Yeoman

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.

—G. Weilacher

The development community has witnessed a role-reversal of sorts take place in recent years. Web applications, once considered by many to be second-class citizens in comparison to their native counterparts, have largely supplanted traditional desktop applications, thanks in large part to the widespread adoption of modern web development technologies and the rise of the mobile Web. But as web applications have grown increasingly sophisticated, so too have the tools on which they rely and the steps required to bootstrap them ...

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