Alex Maccaw

Little Book on CoffeeScript (eBook, ePUB)

The JavaScript Developer's Guide to Building Better Web Apps

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This concise book shows JavaScript developers how to build superb web applications with CoffeeScript, the remarkable language thats gaining considerable interest. Through example code, this guide demonstrates how CoffeeScript abstracts JavaScript, providing syntactical sugar and preventing many common errors. Youll learn CoffeeScripts syntax and idioms step by step, from basic variables and functions to complex comprehensions and classes.Written by Alex MacCaw, author of JavaScript Web Applications (OReilly), with contributions from CoffeeScript creator Jeremy Ashkenas, this book quickly teaches you best practices for using this languagenot just on the client side, but for server-side applications as well. Its time to take a ride with the little language that could.Discover how CoffeeScripts syntax differs from JavaScriptLearn about features such as array comprehensions, destructuring assignments, and classesExplore CoffeeScript idioms and compare them to their JavaScript counterpartsCompile CoffeeScript files in static sites with the Cake build systemUse CommonJS modules to structure and deploy CoffeeScript client-side applicationsExamine JavaScripts bad partsincluding features CoffeeScript was able to fix

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 62
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781449325541
• Artikelnr.: 52460230

Autorenporträt

Alex MacCaw is a Ruby/JavaScript developer & entrepreneur. He has written a JavaScript framework, Spine and developed major applications including Taskforce and Socialmod, as well as a host of open source work. He speaks at Ruby/Rails conferences in NYC, SF and Berlin. In addition to programming he is currently traveling round the world with a Nikon D90 and surfboard.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
What Is CoffeeScript?
Initial Setup
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Chapter 1: CoffeeScript Syntax
1.1 Variables and Scope
1.2 Functions
1.3 Object Literals and Array Definition
1.4 Flow Control
1.5 String Interpolation
1.6 Loops and Comprehensions
1.7 Arrays
1.8 Aliases and the Existential Operator
Chapter 2: CoffeeScript Classes
2.1 Instance Properties
2.2 Static Properties
2.3 Inheritance and Super
2.4 Mixins
2.5 Extending Classes
Chapter 3: CoffeeScript Idioms
3.1 Each
3.2 Map
3.3 Select
3.4 Includes
3.5 Property Iteration
3.6 Min/Max
3.7 Multiple Arguments
3.8 And/Or
3.9 Destructuring Assignments
3.10 External Libraries
3.11 Private Variables
Chapter 4: Compiling CoffeeScript
4.1 Cake
4.2 Creating Applications
Chapter 5: The Good Parts
5.1 The Unfixed parts
5.2 The Fixed Parts
5.3 JavaScript Lint
Chapter 6: The Little Conclusion
6.1 Philosophy
6.2 It's Just JavaScript
6.3 Build Your Own JavaScript