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WebMatrix Supports CoffeeScript

WebMatrix Supports CoffeeScript

Microsoft WebMatrix has numerous new features in version 2, including: code completion for PHP, C#, Razor; iPhone and iPad emulators for mobile web development; Less, Sass, Scss, and CoffeeScript support; Nuget Gallery support that even allows me to download Orchard Modules and Themes; node.js support; etc. I mainly use Sublime Text 2 and JetBrains WebStorm / RubyMine for casual website development, but WebMatrix is free and now feature-rich providing a nice alternative.

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Author: David Hayden

CoffeeScript Development

CoffeeScript Development

As one starts to truly learn JavaScript and begin developing real-world applications with it, it'll fool you at times with unexpected and surprising behavior. This somewhat inconsistent and unintuitive behavior fills many a chapter in JavaScript books. In fact, ironically, JavaScript: The Good Parts spends just as much time pointing out the bad and awful parts of JavaScript as it does the good parts. However, now that JavaScript Development is becoming more main stream and developers are truly programming in JavaScript as opposed to just jQuery or another JavaScript Library, developers are re-thinking JavaScript. In some cases, developers are building languages that are easier to develop in than JavaScript but compile to JavaScript like CoffeeScript. In other cases, developers want to replace JavaScript with a completely different language like Google's new Dash or Dart language for the web. In this case, I would like to talk about CoffeeScript.

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Author: David Hayden