CoffeeScript Application Development Cookbook

Over 90 hands-on recipes to help you develop engaging applications using CoffeeScript In Detail CoffeeScript 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. What You Will Learn 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 e-mails, 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 fixed-width files Downloading the example code for this book. You can download the example code files for all Packt books you have purchased from your account at http://www.PacktPub.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit http://www.PacktPub.com/support and register to have the files e-mailed directly to you.