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3.1 Backlog - Deferreds

jQuery 1.6 brought Deferred support. They are a great feature that promise to make a lot of asynchronous functionality easier to write and manage. But many people struggle with uses other than 'waiting for a bunch of Ajax requests to complete'. For JavaScriptMVC 3.1, we identified an extremely common but annoying practice that becomes a one-liner with deferreds: loading data and a template and rendering the result into an element.

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$.View - Client Side Templates

JavaScriptMVC's views are really just client side templates. Client side templates take data and return a string. Typically, the strings are HTML intended to be inserted into the DOM.

$.View is a templating interface that takes care of complexities using templates:

• Convenient and uniform syntax
• Template loading from html elements or external files
• Synchronous or asynchronous template loading
• Template preloading

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The following is a VERY rough draft of an article I am working on for Alex MacCaw's @maccman's Book. It is very rough, but even now a worthwhile read. Suggestions / comments are very welcome! Please help me :-)

Introduction

JavaScriptMVC (JMVC) is an open-source jQuery-based JavaScript framework. It is nearly a comprehensive (holistic) front-end development framework, packaging utilities for testing, dependency management, documentation, and a host of useful jQuery plugins.

Yet every part of JavaScriptMVC can be used without every other part, making the library lightweight. Its Class, Model, View, and Controller combined are only 7k minified and compressed, yet even they can be used independently. JavaScriptMVC's independence lets you start small and scale to meet the challenges of the most complex applications on the web.

This chapter covers JavaScriptMVC's $.Class, $.Model, $.View, and $.Controller. The following describes each component:

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Introduction

JavaScriptMVC is an open-source jQuery-based JavaScript framework. It is nearly a comprehensive (holistic) front-end development framework; packaging utilities for:

• testing
• dependency management
• error reporting
• package management
• code cleaning
• custom events