Little Book on CoffeeScript

This concise book shows JavaScript developers how to build superb web applications with CoffeeScript, the remarkable language thats gaining considerable interest. Through example code, this guide demonstrates how CoffeeScript abstracts JavaScript, providing syntactical sugar and preventing many common errors. Youll learn CoffeeScripts syntax and idioms step by step, from basic variables and functions to complex comprehensions and classes.Written by Alex MacCaw, author of JavaScript Web Applications (OReilly), with contributions from CoffeeScript creator Jeremy Ashkenas, this book quickly teaches you best practices for using this languagenot just on the client side, but for server-side applications as well. Its time to take a ride with the little language that could.Discover how CoffeeScripts syntax differs from JavaScriptLearn about features such as array comprehensions, destructuring assignments, and classesExplore CoffeeScript idioms and compare them to their JavaScript counterpartsCompile CoffeeScript files in static sites with the Cake build systemUse CommonJS modules to structure and deploy CoffeeScript client-side applicationsExamine JavaScripts bad partsincluding features CoffeeScript was able to fix