How it works...

Yeoman is open source, cross platform, and allows us productivity and efficiency while we develop the project. Many Yeoman generators (http://yeoman.io/generators/) already exist for almost all server-side and client-side frameworks, such as AngularJS, ReactJS, Ionic, Polymer, Bootstrap, CakePHP, ASP.NET 5, ASP.NET WEB API, and many others.

Yeoman is part of the Node.js world, where we use Node modules, package managers through npm or Bower, and task runners, such as Grunt or Gulp.

Note: The other Visual Studio versions already use their own scaffolding project system, and a lot of template projects can be installed by selecting Tools | Extensions and Updates | Online and choosing a project template in the displayed list.