Here I list some Yeoman files explanation:

(1) README.md

After create a js project, for example:

$ npm install -g generator-backbone
$ mkdir project && cd $_
$ yo backbone

Make sure to create README.md as an instruction of the project: $ touch ~/README.md Besides README.md file:

• When using webstorm, make sure to install the markdown plguin.
• Many .md files can be added, working together with wiki and gist

(2) package.json

$ npm init to generate and initialize package.json.

(3) bower.json

$ bower init to generate and initialize bower.json. .bowerrc - to set the directory which Bower will download the dependencies. eg: $ cat .bowerrc { “directory”: “components” }

(4) Gruntfile.js

grunt need to work with Gruntfile.js. The following is how to generate and initialize Gruntfile.js:

$ npm install -g grunt-init
$ git clone https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-init-gruntfile.git ~/.grunt-init/gruntfile
$ grunt-init gruntfile // create a Gruntfile.json using default prompts

(5) Others

(5.a) jshint

$ npm install jshint .jshintrc - grunt jshint to check javascript syntax. Sometimes change ‘true’ to false’ to switch syntax checking to ignore the warnings.

.jshintignore

(5.b) csslint

.csslintrc - grunt csslint to check css syntax. Sometimes change ‘true’ to false’ to switch syntax checking to ignore the warnings.

(5.c) git

.gitingore:

• .idea/
• dist/
• node_modules/
• bower_components/*
• !bower_components/ui-grid.info/

(5.d) editor

.editorconfig - this is a file used to configure your editor. It’s part of EditorConfig, which is designed to be an easy way for developers to use the same code settings, such as spaces/tabs and size of tabs, in a project. If you have the EditorConfig plugin for your editor (Vim, Sublime Text, Notepad++, Emacs, and many more), your editor will update its settings to match the ones in this file. set the following in ~/.bashrc:

• set -o vi
• export PORT=8888
• export NODE_ENV=development

(e) .travis.yml

Used by Travis CI.