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+YA
+===
+
+*Like "Ya mule!"*
+
+### Motivation
+
+It's silly that we have to waste time defining configuration files or build scripts
+for simple projects. Our tools should do that for us.
+
+I just wanted to use my favorite preprocessors freely and have a tool download whatever
+dependencies I need to make that happen – recompiling my changes along the way.
+
+YA is that tool. It manages Grunt behind the scenes and auto-generates your Gruntfile.
+
+`npm install ya.js`
+
+### Usage
+
+YA was built for ease of use.
+
+`ya [directory]` (defaults to `.` if directory is not supplied)
+
+Simply run `ya` in an empty or non-empty directory and it'll do the following:
+
+1. generate a dummy package.json (if you don't have one)
+2. download (as devDependencies) what's needed for any existing preprocessors
+3. generate a Gruntfile in `directory`
+4. compile any existing files
+5. watch the directory for new preprocessors (repeating steps 2 to 4) or changes to recompile
+
+### Preprocessors Supported
+
+**CSS**
+
+* sass
+* less
+
+**JS**
+
+* coffee
+
+**HTML**
+
+* jade
+
+Adding support for a new preprocessor involves creating a
+new `-settings.js` files in `ya/settings/` and adding the details about the
+grunt plugin that should be used for compiling that preprocessor.
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