Hour 21. CoffeeScript
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• What CoffeeScript is and how you can use it
• What CoffeeScript offers over native JavaScript
• Using classes with CoffeeScript
• Some potential issues with using CoffeeScript
What Is CoffeeScript?
CoffeeScript is a pre-compiler for JavaScript written by Jeremy Ashkenas. It is designed with the following goals in mind:
• To clean up JavaScript syntax
• To provide a number of “goodies” for developers that add new features to JavaScript, taken from Ruby and Python
• To make JavaScript easier to use and to expose powerful features of the JavaScript programming language without the need to fully understand the quirks of JavaScript
The term pre-compiler means that CoffeeScript is a layer on ...
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