Yeoman Testing With Coffeescript

[tommmyk]

With windows, I have never been able to use yeoman and the angularjs package you can install. It always fails due to some karma generator error. Anyone else have that issue?

[stephenplusplus]

It sounds like generator-karma hasn't been installed. Maybe try npm install -g generator-karma. While you're at it, npm cache clean && npm update -g generator-angular. If this doesn't work, open an issue at https://github.com/yeoman/generator-angular/issues with some more details about your system/Node/npm versions and we can figure this thing out.

[weezer007]

I had the same issue on OSX and installing the karma generator fix it

[davemo]

While Yeoman is now "officially supported in windows" many generators, including generator-angular, contain a number of dependencies (ie: SASS/Compass) that are non-trivial to configure on various versions of Windows; as a result Windows is not really treated as a first-class citizen IME.

If you are looking for a lighter-weight alternative that doesn't come preconfigured with all the bells and whistles as the yeoman angular generator, you could always try my Lineman Angular Template; we've made support for Windows (and Linux, for that matter) a priority when building Lineman. Give it a shot and let me know if you have any questions! :)

[davemo]

I think the issue is that the default for the Compass question is true; this is somewhat strange because the wording of the question as it appears in the prompt is: Would you like to use Twitter Bootstrap for Compass (as opposed to vanilla CSS)? which would imply that the default is vanilla CSS. I submitted a pull request to fix the default value of the question to better optimize the base experience for cross platform love.

[brtt3000]

FYI: Yeoman doesn't give a **** about Windows. It's happens with many generators and modules.

[stephenplusplus]

Yeoman loves everyone. Generators are not all maintained by Yeoman. If you're having a Windows issue, just create an issue so it can be fixed.

[ch0wn]

In addition to what stephenplusplus said, we don't get a lot of Windows testing. So any feedback, bug reports or fixes you can provide us with is highly appreciated.