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The Little Book on CoffeeScript

Alex MacCaw

Beijing Cambridge Farnham Köln Sebastopol Tokyo

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The Little Book on CoffeeScript

by Alex MacCaw

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Table of Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

1. CoffeeScript Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Variables and Scope 2

Functions 2

Function Arguments 3

Function Invocation 3

Function Context 4

Object Literals and Array Definition 4

Flow Control 5

String Interpolation 6

Loops and Comprehensions 6

Arrays 7

Aliases and the Existential Operator 7

2. CoffeeScript Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Instance Properties 10

Static Properties 10

Inheritance and Super 11

Mixins 12

Extending Classes 12

3. CoffeeScript Idioms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Each 15

Map 15

Select 16

Includes 17

Property Iteration 17

Min/Max 17

Multiple Arguments 18

And/Or 18

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Destructuring Assignments 19

External Libraries 19

Private Variables 19

4. Compiling CoffeeScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Cake 21

Creating Applications 23

Structure and CommonJS 23

Stitch It Up 24

JavaScript Templates 26

Bonus: 30-Second Deployment with Heroku 28

Additional Libraries 29

5. The Good Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

The Unfixed parts 31

Using eval 31

Using typeof 32

Using instanceof 34

Using delete 34

Using parseInt 35

Strict Mode 35

Strict Mode Changes 35

Strict Mode Usage 36

The Fixed Parts 37

A JavaScript Subset 37

Global Variables 38

Semicolons 39

Reserved Words 39

Equality Comparisons 40

Function Definition 41

Number Property Lookups 41

JavaScript Lint 42

6. The Little Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Philosophy 43

It’s Just JavaScript 44

Build Your Own JavaScript 45

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