coffeescript Blog Posts

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• TypesScript and CoffeeScript ports of the Meteor Leaderboard

  Apr 23, 2012 · Bootstrap · coffeescript · Less · Meteor · TypeScript

  I added a TypeScript port and login authenication – changes that made the original post out of date.

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• Bash completion for cake files

  Nov 1, 2011 · bash · cake · coffeescript

  To implement bash(1) tab completion for Cakefile task names all you need to do is add this completion function and command to your ~/.bashrc file:

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• Testing CoffeeScript apps with Selenium

  Oct 25, 2011 · coffeescript · Selenium

  This blog entry describes how to write functional tests for CoffeeScript web apps using Selenium. By way of example I’ll describe how I added Selenium tests to the Routeless Backbone Contacts tutorial app and automated it’s execution with a Cakefile.

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• Compiling CoffeeScript with Vim

  Oct 20, 2011 · coffeescript · Less · Stylus · Vim

  You can configure Vim to automatically compile CoffeeScript files when you save them from within Vim, it’s easy, just add an autocmd to run the CoffeeScript compiler to your ~/.vimrc file:

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• Getters and Setters for Backbone Model attributes

  Oct 16, 2011 · Backbone.js · coffeescript

  The Backbone.js Model class provides get and set methods to read and write Model attributes which is not a concise or natural as object property access. But it’s not difficult to add a class method to generate Model getter/setter properties so that you can do this in CoffeeScript:

  person.name = 'Joe Bloggs'
  ph = person.phone
  

  instead of this:

  person.set {name: 'Joe Bloggs'}
  ph = person.get 'name'
  

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