I have been working/co-owning the ASP.NET 5 yeoman generator and there has been some good success in the xplat story for users getting started with project templates. See OmniSharp/generator-aspnet
scriptcs I believe would benefit greatly from the same. Please put in template and project type samples you'd like to see here. Share this issue via twitter etc for more exposure!
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