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Create user interfaces with jQuery, Backbone, AngularJS, and Kendo.UI

Develop RESTful services using Node and Express

Read and write data using SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, CouchDB, and Microsoft SQL Server

Interface with external services to send emails, SMS text messages, and use cloud storage services such as DropBox and S3

Test your code using Jasmine, QUnit, Zombie, Persona, and Mocha with Chai

Work with a variety of hosts such as Heroku, Azure, and Amazon Web Services

Use CoffeeScript for DevOps tasks such as managing files and directories, and parsing CSV and fixedwidth files

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Anirudh Prabhu May 25, 2015

CoffeeScript is a programming language that transcompiles to JavaScript. It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell[1] to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way. The compiled output is readable and pretty-printed, will work in every JavaScript runtime, and tends to run as fast or faster than the equivalent handwritten JavaScript.Mike Hatfield has over 25 years of experience in developing custom business solutions for a variety of clients and industries, with this book helps us understand how CoffeeScript provides us with a better approach to develop our applications that not only helps us to avoid these pitfalls, but also allows us to be more productive while still being able to take advantage of the large JavaScript ecosystem.This book is a practical guide, filled with many step-by-step examples of using CoffeeScript for all aspects of building our software.This book begins by looking at the fundamentals and getting our tools ready to be productive CoffeeScript developers. Next, it will demonstrate how to use CoffeeScript to create our application layers, including the user interface, database, and backend services layer, followed by investigating various options to test and host our applications. Finally, we will look at ways CoffeeScript can be used by the DevOps to help automate their day-to-day tasks.If you like developing applications that can be run on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices without learning platform-specific languages, this is the book for you.

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Winston May 26, 2015

Coffee Script Application Development shows the reader the importance of not only the importance of CoffeeScript but the importance hear and now in the future. The author does a wonderful job of guiding the reader through such tasks such as managing files and and parsing CSV. For the longest time I needed a better way of parsing CSV files. Now I have it. Many thanks to the author for such clear explanations and guidance.

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Charriere May 27, 2015

Classes are coming to JavaScript with ECMAScript 2015, but they are already here with CoffeeScript, and other good practices (as fat arrow). And, as Jeremy Ashkenas says: “CoffeeScript is just JavaScript” ;)You should know that “transpiled” CoffeeScript code and “transpiled” ECMAScript 2015 code are very similar, and thanks to this it is nice to work with coffeescript. And it’s a good reason to learn CoffeeScript : ECMAScript 2015 is inspired by it, so CoffeeScript is a serious language, and it already runs everywhere (browser, server, …).The book “CoffeeScript Application Development Cookbook” is probably the most complete book about this subject. Indeed, it deals with:- front-side development : CoffeeScript is framework agnostic, so you can use it with jQuery, Angular, Backbone and even Kendo UI.- server-side development with Nodejs : you’ll find paragraphs about working with Redis, MongoDB, CouchDB and even SQLite, RESTful webservices with Express and CoffeeScript, ...This book deals with many other subjects (Testing, Hosting, Shell, …). It’s really complete, especially if you want to get an overall view of the subject and all its aspects.

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Michael Joseph Kramer Jun 03, 2015

The CoffeeScript Application Development Cookbook is a broad survey of the current JavaScript development landscape, and is a great starting point for an experienced developer without much exposure to JavaScript or CoffeeScript, or for less experienced developers. The focus on tasks and working with frameworks and tools in a real-world manner sets it apart from a simple CoffeeScript syntax tutorial.The book begins with some environment setup information and then spends some time introducing CoffeeScript syntax and idioms. After that, the book's chapters each serve as a mini-tutorial either detailing a library or framework like Cordova, or outlining a specific task, like testing or building a CoffeeScript application for deployment. For the most part, each of these chapters can be read independently as "Getting Started" for the subject matter. The book also, however, provides a high-level look at the tasks and capabilities of CoffeeScript/JavaScript if read cover to cover, which is a feature not often present in books labeled as "Cookbooks".The text is well written, and the explanations and examples are easy to follow and well thought out. Each individual chapter can generally be read without the preceding ones to mix and match with current interests.Experienced CoffeeScript or JavaScript developers may not find the depth or complexity that typically accompanies a cookbook-type book, but some of the tasks covered are more advanced tasks and the text is enough to introduce the subject. Also, while the books examples are in CoffeeScript, the concepts and library introductions are just as applicable to JavaScript.I think if you're interested in CoffeeScript or popular tools and frameworks that JavaScript and CoffeeScript developers are using, then I think you'll be happy with CoffeeScript Application Development.*Note: I received a complimentary copy of the book from the publisher.

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Dustin Marx Jun 09, 2015

"CoffeeScript Application Development Cookbook" uses over 90 recipes to explain and illustrate development of CoffeeScript-based web applications. The book provides an introduction to CoffeeScript and its syntax, explains who one might choose CoffeeScript rather than direct JavaScript, and then several of the book's chapters and recipes cover the broader range of JavaScript-based libraries and frameworks that can be used with CoffeeScript. These recipes discuss and demonstrate integrating these JavaScript libraries and frameworks with CoffeeScript. I also like that "CoffeeScript Application Development Cookbook" has chapters with recipes on debugging and unit testing CoffeeScript code.The text in "CoffeeScript Application Development Cookbook" is generally easy to read and flows well. There are a few typos, but most of them are easy to see what was intended and don't detract from understanding the content being presented. The book's screen snapshots illustrate the concepts well. The code listings tend to be short and focused on the recipe at hand. They are black text on white background with no color syntax and no line numbers in the electronic version of the book I reviewed.I enjoyed reading the PDF version of "CoffeeScript Application Development Cookbook" that Packt Publishing provided for my review. It seems especially well-suited for the web developer who has some (even minor) experience in JavaScript and wants to understand why CoffeeScript may be preferable to JavaScript for his or her situation and how one can go about using CoffeeScript to develop applications that take advantage of the numerous libraries, tools, and frameworks that are available to JavaScript developers.

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Coffeescript Application Development Cookbook: Over 90 hands-on recipes to help you develop engaging applications using CoffeeScript

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