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CoffeeScript Programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js

By : Michael Erasmus
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CoffeeScript Programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js

By: Michael Erasmus

Overview of this book

<p>CoffeeScript is a young but popular language that makes web programming fun and more productive. It compiles to JavaScript and unleashes its powerful features while not straying too far from the language. It’s become one of the most popular languages on Github and is being used for both browser and server side programming.<br /><br />"CoffeeScript programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js" will not only teach you the CoffeeScript language but also show you how it’s being used by professional programmers with the latest web technologies.<br /><br />This book will teach you the basics of the language, focusing particularly on how it improves on JavaScript. It then focuses on building real life projects in CoffeeScript using jQuery, Rails, and Node.js. <br /><br />We look at CoffeeScript as a language that takes the power of JavaScript and presents it in an elegant and concise syntax. We will then see how we can use its power to write beautiful and short programs for various environments and how it complements the latest and greatest web frameworks.<br /><br />CoffeeScript programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js is all you need to become well versed with this great language and set you on your way to using it to write web applications.</p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
CoffeeScript Programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Stephen Ball works for PhishMe Inc. as a full stack Rails developer. He started programming in BASIC in the 80s and has been tinkering on the Internet since the early 90s. He's programming for the Web in Perl, PHP, Python, Django, Node.js, and Rails. He currently writes a Ruby and Rails blog at http://rakeroutes.com and a CoffeeScript blog at http://coffeescriptcafe.com. He lives with his wife, Sarah, and two children, Edward and Marie, in Durham, NC, USA.

Shreyank Gupta is a passout of NIT Durgapur. He works as a programmer and web developer at Red Hat since 2009. In his free time he works on improving his photography.