How web base template actually works

Like, how this and wordpress and scott's plugin and everything all work together

The Short Version

web-base-template sets up the structure of all jquery websites using Wordpress Multisite, it contains all of the theme files.
During the install process web-base-template uses a custom wp-config file to setup dev sites for all of the various jquery websites in your local environment.
Using Grunt-Wordpress The contents of .html files in /posts/<post-type>/ for each site are push to the wordpress database using XML-RPC
The file name become the post/page slug when deployed to wordpress.