CoffeeScript Application Development

图书信息

作者	Ian Young
出版社	Packt Publishing
ISBN	9781782162674
出版时间	2013-08-26
字数	207.9万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,电脑,网络

读书简介

CoffeeScript Application Development is a practical, hands-on guide with step-by-step instructions. Follow the smooth and easy tutorial approach, covering examples that build in complexity. By the final chapter you'll be wondering why you didn't try CoffeeScript sooner.If you are a JavaScript developer who wants to save time and add power to your code, then this is the book that will help you do it. With minimal fuss you will learn a whole new language which will reduce your application development time from weeks to days.

目录

Index

Chapter 1. Running a CoffeeScript Program

Installing Node.js

Tip

Installing Node.js on OS X

Tip

Using the installer

Using Homebrew

Note

Tip

Using Macports

Tip

Installing Node.js on Windows

Using the installer

Using the standalone executable

Tip

Using Chocolatey

Tip

Installing Node.js on Linux

Using a graphical package manager

Using the command line

Tip

Linux Mint/Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

Debian Sid/Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)

Arch Linux

Fedora

Compiling Node.js manually

Tip

Tip

Tip

Skipping the Node installation step

Testing our Node installation

Tip

Testing npm

Tip

Installing CoffeeScript

Tip

Tip

Our very first CoffeeScript code

Compiling from a CoffeeScript file

Note

Tip

CoffeeScript support in the editor

Tip

Support in TextMate

Support in Sublime Text 2

Support in Vim

Tip

Support in Emacs

Starting our web application

Note

One more thing

Tip

Tip

Summary

Chapter 2. Writing Your First Lines of CoffeeScript

Following along with the examples

Seeing the compiled JavaScript

CoffeeScript basics

Statements

Variables

Comments

Calling functions

Precedence

Control structures

Using if statements

Tip

Note

The else and else if statements

The unless statement

Single-line form

Comparison operators

Note

Tip

Arrays

Ranges

Note

Loops

Loop comprehensions

A few more array tricks

Checking array membership

Note

Simple objects

Iterating over objects

Summary

Chapter 3. Building a Simple Application

Building our application

Tip

Tip

Tip

Note

String Interpolation

Using string interpolation in our application

Defining functions

Function naming

Note

Function return behavior

Adding dynamic behavior to our application

Tip

Tip

Tip

Switch statements

Using a switch statement in our application

Note

Summary

Chapter 4. Improving Our Application

Checking if a value exists

Using the existential operator

Null values in chained calls

Assigning new values conditionally when null

Dealing with nulls in our application

Assigning multiple values at once

Tip

Using destructuring assignment in our application

Advanced function arguments

Default argument values

Using default arguments in our application

Accepting a variable number of arguments with splats

Invoking functions with splats

Using splats in our application

Tip

Summary

Chapter 5. Classes in CoffeeScript

Defining a class in CoffeeScript

Attaching methods to a class

Note

How CoffeeScript builds classes in JavaScript

Maintaining state with object properties

Calling other methods on this object

Attaching a method outside of the class definition

Note

Constructors

CoffeeScript constructors in JavaScript

Calling methods statically on classes

Inheritance

Note

CoffeeScript's inheritance in JavaScript

Using CoffeeScript with other class libraries

Backbone classes in CoffeeScript

Note

Ember classes in CoffeeScript

Note

Summary

Chapter 6. Refactoring with Classes

The refactoring cycle

Structuring our data with classes

Note

Adding business logic

More data modeling

Note

More business logic

Managing display logic with classes

Displaying a collection

The top-level display logic

Note

A final refactoring pass

Using inheritance while refactoring

Getting the green light

Summary

Chapter 7. Advanced CoffeeScript Usage

Getting our context right

Note

Note

Using fat arrows in our project

Saving our work with memoization

Tip

Using memoization in our application

A new idiom: options objects

Tip

Note

Using options objects in our application

Tip

Summary

Chapter 8. Going Asynchronous

Understanding asynchronous operations

Getting to know our remote API

Note

Making an asynchronous request

Note

Using a third-party library

Note

Refactoring

Wrangling multiple asynchronous calls

Requests in a loop

Note

Determining when we're finished

Alternatives for managing asynchronous calls

Promises

Note

Using Promises in our application

Note

An async helper library

Note

Using Async.js in our application

IcedCoffeeScript

Note

Note

Using IcedCoffeeScript in our application

Tip

Summary

Chapter 9. Debugging

Discovering a problem

Working with source maps

Note

Source maps in the Firefox developer tools

Tip

Inspecting our application state

Tip

Using the debugger

Source maps in the Chrome developer tools

Inspecting our application state

Using the debugger

Fixing the problem

Summary

Chapter 10. Using CoffeeScript in More Places

CoffeeScript directly in the browser

Note

CoffeeScript in the browser console

A CoffeeScript console in Firefox

Tip

Tip

Tip

A CoffeeScript console in Chrome

Using CoffeeScript with Rails

Setting up the asset pipeline

Creating a new Rails application

Tip

Rails 3.0

Rails 3.1 and 3.2

Tip

Rails 4

Setting up our application

Adding some CoffeeScript

Tip

Note

Precompiling assets

Tip

Using CoffeeScript with Brunch

Creating a Brunch project

Tip

Note

Tip

Filling out our application

Tip

Tip

Precompiling assets

Using CoffeeScript with Node.js

Creating our project

Keeping the server up-to-date

Note

Adding CoffeeScript compilation

Note

Finishing our application

Tip

Cleaning up our script dependencies

Summary

Chapter 11. CoffeeScript on the Server

Running a server with CoffeeScript

Tip

Note

Tip

Running our application

Adding an endpoint for data

Using a database

Tip

Tip

Handling errors

Using a Cakefile

Writing a Cake task

More Cake tasks

Making our application interactive

Seeing the results

Summary

CoffeeScript Application Development

CoffeeScript Application Development

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What is CoffeeScript?

Why CoffeeScript?

Note

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Note

Tip

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

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