Programming in CoffeeScript
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Use CoffeeScript to Write Better JavaScript Code Than Ever Before!
If you can do it in JavaScript, you can do it better in CoffeeScript. And, since CoffeeScript โcompiles downโ to JavaScript, your code will fit neatly into virtually any web environment. In Programming in CoffeeScript, Mark Bates shows web developers why CoffeeScript is so useful and how it avoids the problems that often make JavaScript code buggy and unmanageable. He guides you through every feature and technique you need to write quality CoffeeScript code and shows how to take advantage of CoffeeScriptโs increasingly robust toolset.
Bates begins with the absolute basics of running and compiling CoffeeScript and then introduces syntax, control structures, functions, collections, and classes. Through same page code comparisons, youโll discover exactly how CoffeeScript improves on JavaScript. Next, youโll put it to work in building applications that are powerful, flexible, maintainable, concise, reliable, and secure. Bates shares valuable tips for better development, illuminating CoffeeScriptโs hidden gems and warning you about its remaining โrough edges.โ The book concludes with a start-to-finish application case study showing how to code back-ends and front-ends and integrate powerful frameworks and libraries. Coverage includes
- Understanding the right ways to compile and execute CoffeeScript
- Using CoffeeScriptโs clean syntax to focus on your code, not JavaScriptโs distractions
- Working with CoffeeScriptโs control structures, functions, and arguments
- Taking full advantage of CoffeeScriptโs implementation of collections and iterators
- Leveraging CoffeeScriptโs full class support to create complex data models
- Automating common application development tasks with Cake and Cakefiles
- Configuring Jasmine with CoffeeScript support, and using it to systematically test your code
- Writing Node.js server-side applications in CoffeeScript
- Using CoffeeScript to write jQuery and Backbone.js applications
- Integrating framework code to avoid โreinventing the wheelโ
Want a better way to create the JavaScript code your web applications need? CoffeeScript is the solutionโand this book will help you master it!
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Mark Bates is the founder and chief architect of the Boston-based consulting company Meta42 Labs. Mark spends his days focusing on new application development and consulting for his clients. At night he writes books, raises kids, and occasionally he forms a band and โtries to make it.โ
Mark has been writing web applications, in one form or another, since 1996. His career started as a UI developer writing HTML and JavaScript applications before moving toward the middle(ware) with Java and Ruby. Nowadays, Mark spends his days cheating on Ruby with his new mistress, CoffeeScript.
Always wanting to share his wisdom, or more correctly just wanting to hear the sound of his own voice, Mark has spoken at several high-profile conferences, including RubyConf, RailsConf, and jQueryConf. Mark has also taught classes on Ruby and Ruby on Rails. In 2009 Markโs first (surprisingly not his last!) book, Distributed Programming with Ruby, was published by Addison-Wesley.
Mark lives just outside of Boston with his wife, Rachel, and their two sons, Dylan and Leo. Mark can be found on the web at: http://www.markbates.com, http://twitter.com/markbates, and http://github.com/markbates.
