About this Book

This is a language book. It doesn’t try to comprehensively detail libraries, frameworks, or other ancillary matters. Instead, it concentrates only on teaching the CoffeeScript programming language from syntax, through composition, to building, testing, and deploying applications. Although this book is full of complete, working programs, they’re all manufactured (contrived, if you will) slaves to the core goal of helping you learn to program in CoffeeScript. You’ll find this book to be a useful reference because of its breadth and depth, but it isn’t comprehensive. The web made comprehensive programming references obsolete long ago.

If you want to learn the CoffeeScript language, then this book is for you. If, instead, you want ...

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