Using a "generator" concept inspired by Ruby on Rails,[11] Yeoman first creates a basic project structure with vendor libraries included.

Yeoman also runs interactively, asking the developer if they would like additional components such as Twitter Bootstrap or RequireJS (a library to support Asynchronous Module Definition) included.

Yeoman lints code for potential problems using JSHint, runs unit tests, and provides a development server for working on an application.

Finally, Yeoman also offers a build automation process featuring optimizations such as minification and concatenation of script files.

[14] Some of the primary contributors are on the Google Chrome Developer Relations team, such as Addy Osmani, Paul Irish, and Eric Bidelman.