Because coffeescript is really just a thin veneer over javaScript there are, in my opinion, a few lost opportunities. For example, when you create a class all members (properties or functions) are public. However, there are work arounds. I created a class to help me work with query string parameters. Actually, I ended up creating …
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I fear the documentation for coffeescript does not really explain the way that static and instance members work terribly well. So, I’ve put together this rough guide to classes in coffeescript For this set of examples, I’m going to use my standard class diagram that you may have seen on other blog posts: Creating a …
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In my previous post I showed how to create unit tests for coffeescript. I also included a link to Eli Thompson’s coffeescript unit testing runner which allows you to easily gather all the .coffee files and the unit tests together in one place thus allowing you to keep your unit tests in separate files (rather …
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I’ve recently started looking at Coffeescript. And to get going with that I’m jumping directly in with unit-testing. I figured that it would be an interesting way to learn the language. Since coffeescript compiles to javascript, you can use a javascript unit testing framework such as QUnit which can be downloaded from github. Getting to grips with QUnit Before …
