CoffeeScript Programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Why CoffeeScript?
• CoffeeScript syntax
• Semicolons and braces
• Whitespace
• Parenthesis
• CoffeeScript has great function syntax
• Return isn't required
• Function arguments
• Where did the var keyword go?
• CoffeeScript handles scope better
• Top level var keywords
• CoffeeScript has better object syntax
• Inheritance
• Overwhelmed?
• Extending prototypes
• A few other things CoffeeScript fixes
• Reserved words and object syntax
• String concatenation
• Equality
• The existential operator
• List comprehensions
• The while loop
• Conditional clauses and logical aliases
• Array slicing and splicing
• Destructuring or pattern matching
• => and @
• Switch statements
• Chained comparisons
• Block strings, block comments, and strings
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Running CoffeeScript
• The CoffeeScript stack
• Node.js and npm
• Node.js, npm, and CoffeeScript on Windows
• Installing CoffeeScript on a Mac
• Using the Apple installer
• Using Homebrew
• Installing CoffeeScript with npm
• Installing CoffeeScript on Linux
• Ubuntu and MintOS
• Debian
• Other distributions
• Installing CoffeeScript with npm
• Building Node.js from source
• Building on Linux or Unix
• Building on Windows
• Using CoffeeScript
• The coffee command
• The REPL
• Running .coffee files
• Compiling to JavaScript
• Watching
• Putting it all together
• Summary

• Chapter 3: CoffeeScript and jQuery
• Finding and changing elements
• The $ function
• Utility functions
• Ajax methods
• Using jQuery
• Using CoffeeScript and jQuery in the browser
• Compiling CoffeeScript
• jQuery and CoffeeScript
• Testing it all
• Running a local web server
• Our application
• TodoMVC
• Our initial HTML
• Initializing our app
• Adding a to-do item
• Using localStorage
• Displaying the to-do items
• Showing the to-do items
• Removing and completing items
• Now, it's your turn!
• Summary

• Chapter 4: CoffeeScript and Rails
• What makes Rails special?
• Convention over configuration
• Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
• Rails and JavaScript
• Rails and CoffeeScript
• Installing Rails
• Installing Rails using RailsInstaller
• Installing Rails using RVM
• Got Rails installed?
• Developing our Rails application
• MVC
• Running our application
• Our todo_items resource
• routes.rb
• The controller
• The view
• The CSS
• Our model
• Migrations
• The Rails console
• Displaying the items in our view using ERB
• Creating a partial
• Adding new items
• Let's try and add a to-do item
• Adding a CoffeeScript view
• CoffeeScript in the asset pipeline
• Completing the to-do items
• Removing tasks
• Now, it's your turn

• Summary

• Chapter 5: CoffeeScript and Node.js
• Node is event-driven
• Node is fast and scalable
• Node is not Rails
• Node and CoffeeScript
• "Hello World" in Node
• Express
• WebSocket
• Jade
• Our application
• Let's get started
• package.json
• Installing our modules
• Creating our app
• Running our application
• Creating a view
• node-supervisor
• The to-do list view
• Middleware
• Our stylesheet
• The client side
• Adding collaboration
• Creating the collaboration UI
• WebSocket on the client
• WebSocket on the server
• Joining a list
• The UI
• Leaving a list
• Testing it all
• Adding to-do items to a shared list
• Removing to-do items from a shared list
• Now, it's your turn
• Summary

• Index