Programming in CoffeeScript

10. Example: Todo List Part 1 (Server-side)

In the first part of this book you learned the ins and outs of CoffeeScript. We covered every last detail of how the language works, how it maps to JavaScript, and how it can help make writing your applications cleaner and more secure. In the last few chapters we’ve looked at a few of the projects that surround the CoffeeScript ecosystem. Now, for the final three chapters of this book, I’d like us to put what we’ve learned into actual use.

Personally, I learn best from seeing things work. Seeing contrived examples of some feature or library goes only so far in actually teaching me what that library is supposed to be doing, but when I see it in action, that’s another story. I can start to see how it ...