CoffeeScript (For Jay Muratore) by Burnham, Trevor -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

CoffeeScript Table of Contents What readers are saying about CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development Foreword Acknowledgments Preface

The New Kid in Town Who This Book Is For How This Book Is Organized About the Example Project: 5x5 The CoffeeScript Community

Chapter 1: Getting Started

1.1 Installing CoffeeScript 1.2 Text Editors for CoffeeScript 1.3 Meet ’coffee’ 1.4 Debugging CoffeeScript 1.5 Ready to Roll!

Chapter 2: Functions, Scope, and Context

2.1 Functions 101 2.2 Scope: Where You See ’Em 2.3 Context (or, “What Is ’this’?”) 2.4 Property Arguments (@arg) 2.5 Default Arguments (arg =) 2.6 Splats (...) 2.7 Project: 5x5 Input Parser 2.8 You’ve Done Well, Young Padawan 2.9 Exercises

Chapter 3: Collections and Iteration

3.1 Objects as Hashes 3.2 Arrays 3.3 Iterating over Collections 3.4 Conditional Iteration 3.5 Comprehensions 3.6 Pattern Matching (or, Destructuring Assignment) 3.7 Project: 5x5 Solitaire 3.8 Beyond the Basics 3.9 Exercises

Chapter 4: Modules and Classes

4.1 Modules: Splitting Up Apps 4.2 The Power of Prototypes 4.3 Classes: Functions with Prototypes 4.4 Inheritance with ’extends’ 4.5 Project: Refactoring 5x5 4.6 Just a Spoonful of Sugar 4.7 Exercises

Chapter 5: Web Interactivity with jQuery

5.1 The Tao of jQuery 5.2 Manipulating the DOM 5.3 Getting Selective 5.4 Reacting to Events 5.5 Project: Browser-Based 5x5 5.6 The Future Is jQueryfied 5.7 Exercises

Chapter 6: Server-Side Apps with Node.js

6.1 What Is Node.js? 6.2 Modularizing Code with ’exports’ and ’require’ 6.3 Thinking Asynchronously 6.4 Project: Multiplayer 5x5 6.5 Client, Server—What’s the Difference? 6.6 Exercises

Appendix 1: Answers to Exercises

A1.1 Functions, Scope, and Context A1.2 Collections and Iteration A1.3 Modules and Classes A1.4 Web Interactivity with jQuery A1.5 Server-Side Apps with Node.js

Appendix 2: Ways of Running CoffeeScript

A2.1 Web Consoles A2.2 Running CoffeeScript in Your Web App A2.3 CoffeeScript on Rails A2.4 CoffeeScript via Middleware A2.5 CoffeeScript on Node.js A2.6 Rapid Websites with Middleman A2.7 CoffeeScript for System Scripts

Appendix 3: Cheat Sheet for JavaScripters

A3.1 Boolean Operators A3.2 The Existential Operator A3.3 Context and Prototype Accessors A3.4 Function Definitions A3.5 Conditionals A3.6 Property Existence A3.7 Iteration

Appendix 4: Bibliography