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CoffeeScript Application Development Cookbook

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Over 90 hands-on recipes to help you develop engaging applications using CoffeeScriptAbout This BookUse CoffeeScript to create and test applications and backend servicesBuild applications using popular frameworks, libraries, and platformsInterface with popular services to send e-mails, text messages, and use cloud storageWho This Book Is ForIf you are interested in developing modern applications, this book will help you leverage the vast JavaScript ecosystem while using an elegant language, helping you avoid the shortcomings of JavaScript.

What You Will LearnCreate user interfaces with jQuery, Backbone, AngularJS, and Kendo.UIDevelop RESTful services using Node and ExpressRead and write data using SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, CouchDB, and Microsoft SQL ServerInterface with external services to send e-mails, SMS text messages, and use cloud storage services such as DropBox and S3Test your code using Jasmine, QUnit, Zombie, Persona, and Mocha with ChaiWork with a variety of hosts such as Heroku, Azure, and Amazon Web ServicesUse CoffeeScript for DevOps tasks such as managing files and directories, and parsing CSV and fixed-width filesIn DetailCoffeeScript is a JavaScript compiler. CoffeeScript brings many things to the table that are lacking in JavaScript itself. This includes a class and module system, a syntax that is cleaner, less terse, and well structured, and list comprehensions that make working with collections of data more enjoyable. CoffeeScript can be used as not only a tool for the Web, but also as a tool for day-to-day DevOps type tasks (for example, file processing, working with databases, and more).

This practical guide contains a wide range of recipes demonstrating how CoffeeScript can be used while developing the entire stack of an application. With recipes that range from easy and intermediate to advanced, there is something here for anyone looking to escape the common pitfalls of JavaScript and develop in a clean and expressive language.

370 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 31, 2015

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June 10, 2015
Awesome way to show this extension of JavaScript, making it completely powerful for applications of all kinds.

The book begins by teaching the language and syntax of CoffeeScript, with basic and powerful examples.
Then, little by little it is becoming more and more complex: Client Applications with JQuery, Backbone and angularjs, followed by desktop applications, connections to databases such as SQLite and MongoDB. Besides showing the construction of REST services.

I stood with my mouth open when it shows the simplicity to send emails, and access services such as Amazon S3 and FTP in a natural way.

Organizing chapter is like a recipe: Introduction, Getting Ready, How to do it, How it works, There's more. And it covers the basics, what is important, and all the extra things you can do.

Cherry ice cream were the commands to DevOps well, no one can escape to implement CoffeeScript production.
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