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Yo

CLI tool for running Yeoman generators

From yeoman·Updated June 22, 2026·View on GitHub·

Yeoman helps you to kickstart new projects, prescribing best practices and tools to help you stay productive. The project is written primarily in JavaScript, distributed under the BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License license, first published in 2013. It has gained significant community traction with 3,959 stars and 406 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: generator, javascript, nodejs, scaffolding, templates.

Latest release: v7.0.1
April 9, 2026View Changelog →

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What's Yeoman?

Yeoman helps you to kickstart new projects, prescribing best practices and tools to help you stay productive.

To do so, we provide a generator ecosystem. A generator is basically a plugin that can be run with the yo command to scaffold complete projects or useful parts.

Usage

sh
# install yo npm install --global yo # install a generator npm install --global generator-webapp # run it yo webapp

or via brew:

sh
brew install yo

To create and distribute your own generator, refer to our official documentation

You can also run a local generator on your computer as such:

sh
# Running a local generator yo ./path/to/local/generator

Options

  • --no-color - Disable colors.
  • --version - Print the current yo version.
  • --help - Print yo help menu with the list of found generators.
  • --generators - Print available generators.
  • --local-only - Disable lookup of globally-installed generators.

Troubleshooting

Running yo doctor command can help you troubleshoot common issues.

If doctor doesn't help, then check opened issues for a similar problem. Open a new issue if your problem haven't been reported yet. Make sure to always include the version of yo (yo --version) and Node.js (node --version) you use.

If your issue only occurs using a generator, please report the issues on the generator's repository.

Contribute

See the contributing docs.

Changelog

See the release page.

Backers

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License

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