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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

Using CoffeeScript


And there you have it. Having to install Node.js and npm just to get CoffeeScript might seem like a lot of effort, but you'll get to experience the power of having a wonderful server-side JavaScript framework and good command-line tools to write CoffeeScript with.

Now that you have CoffeeScript installed, how do we go about using it? Your main entry point into the language is the coffee command.