CoffeeScript Presentation - Envato - 25/10/2011

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CoffeeScript

http://img.anongallery.org/img/2/0/javascript-the-good-parts.jpg

Intro

• 1.0 in December 24, 2010
• Default in Rails 3.1
• Current version 1.1.2
• "It's just JavaScript"
• Influence the future of JavaScript - Brendan Eich

Little Demo

• Basic Examples
• Classes
• Refactoring
• Workflow
• Asset folder

Pros

• More readable
• Shorter
• Easy to maintain
• Encourages the use of good JavaScript patterns
• Discourages JavaScript anti-patterns
• Compile to the good parts and JsLint warning-free

Cons

• Compilation
• Debugging
• Knowledge

When and who should be using it?

• TDD/Heavy Scripts
• Eventually for everything

Documentation

• http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

Learn

• Peepcode screencast
• The little book
• Book (pragmatic bookshelf)
• CoffeeScript Koans
• js2coffee.org

Community

• Github
• Community @coffeescript/#coffeescript

Conclusion

Questions?

Thanks

Links

Demo https://gist.github.com/1311614

Official documentation http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

Peepcode Screencast https://peepcode.com/products/coffeescript

CoffeeScript Little Book http://arcturo.github.com/library/coffeescript/

CoffeeScript Koans https://github.com/sleepyfox/coffeescript-koans

js2coffee http://js2coffee.org/

CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development Book ($29) http://pragprog.com/book/tbcoffee/coffeescript

Underscore.js http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/