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CoffeeScript In The Wild

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Applications

Web

Annotateit - Web annotations and higlights

API Axle - Locally hosted, Mashery style API proxy.

Apiary.io - API prototyping & debugging

Bonnevoy - Dutch travel search engine (CoffeeScript + Spine)

BusyConf - Conference scheduling app (CoffeeScript + jQuery + Sencha Touch)

CloudApp - Share. Files. Fast. (CoffeScript + Backbone.js annotated source)

EtherCalc - Massively multiplayer online spreadsheet. (CoffeeScript + Zappa.js)

Grifo - Opensource portfolio using Google Docs spreadsheet as CMS. (CoffeeScript + Backbone.js)

HelpShelf - Upload and Organize your technical PDFs with full text search

Heroscale - Tool that monitors and scales your Heroku dynos/workers

Koding - Cloud Development Environment with php/ruby/perl/python support. (Coming version is 100% coffee+nodejs)

Newebe - Distributed social network.

nodejs-twitter - Twitter like engine built with MongoDB

ProcessingCoffeeScript - Online Editor for processing.js sketches written in CoffeeScript.

PixieEngine - Web based IDE focusing on HTML5 game development.

Posterous - Blogging platform. Used CoffeeScript to create its revamped "Spaces" front-end. (source)

Sellaround - A social commerce widget written with CoffeeScript and jQuery.

ShareLaTeX - A real time collaborative LaTeX editor inside the browser

Showbomber - A mash-up of upcoming concerts and videos.

Solitr - Solitaire game (GitHub)

Strut - ImpressJS GUI / Authoring tool

Trello - Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards.

Tzigla - Collaborative drawing application. Includes a pixel art editor.

WebGLCraft - WebGL implementation of Minecraft written in Three.js and Coffeescript.

web-terminal - Persistent real time, multi-user terminal for web browser.

Widescript - Digital textbook platform

WordSquared - Massively multiplayer online scrabble (previously known as Scrabb.ly)

Mobile (iOS/Android)

Airbnb Mobile - Mobile web version of Airbnb (Backbone + CoffeeScript)

Album Plus - Native iPhone Photo app (Pure CoffeeScript compiled with Titanium)

Ars Technica iPad application - Official Ars Technica application for the iPad

Basecamp Mobile - Mobile web version of 37signals' Basecamp (Backbone + CoffeeScript + Eco)

ChainCal - iPhone app for tracking daily goals (Backbone + CoffeeScript + Eco)

Chalk - A simple drawing application for the iPad.

CrowdGame Trivially - Multi-player iPad game. Players interact via their smartphone browsers. Appcelerator-based. Written in CoffeeScript, with an Objective-C HTTP server, which serves pages to remote users written in CoffeeScript.

HotelTonight - Hotel finder. Both the iPhone app and Android app are written in CoffeeScript. For the iPhone app, it is an Appcelerator Titanium based app, and the Android app is an HTML5 app (using Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile).

Tech Demos

Conway's Game Of Life - An implementation of Conway's Game of Life using OOP CoffeeScript.

Conway's Game Of Life - A small simulation of Conway's Game of Life.

Conway's Game Of Life - Conway's game of life with annotated source.

cortex - "core technologies" - MMO game platform written on node.js and WebGL.

Eight Queens - Eight Queens, animated and annotated

Gates of Olympus - A browser based 3d tower defense game, using webgl (source)

Viper - Remake of an old Amiga game, a variant of a Snake, using Canvas and WebSockets for multiplayer support.

Tools and Frameworks

Build and Deployment

Buildr - The (Java|Coffee)Script and (CSS|Less) (Builder|Bundler|Packer|Minifier|Merger|Checker)

Brunch - a lightweight approach to building HTML5 applications with emphasis on elegance and simplicity on top of Backbone.js, eco, jQuery, Stitch & Stylus.

CoffeeScript Project Template - Build system for CoffeeScript projects compiled with Google's Closure Compiler

settings - Simple, hierarchical environment-based app settings.

Database

riak-js - Node.js Riak client query-engine - A NoSQL (and MongoDB compliant) Query Engine coded in CoffeeScript for Server-Side use with Node.js and Client-Side use with Web-Browsers

mongo-model Model for MongoDB (Node.JS) http://bit.ly/mongo-model

Debugging

CoffeeScriptLineMatcher Line mappings for CoffeeScript

Design Patterns

WebActors - Actors for JavaScript meta_code CoffeeScript metaprogramming tools

Documentation Generators

CoffeeDoc - an API documentation generator for CoffeeScript

Docco - a quick-and-dirty literate-programming-style documentation generator for CoffeeScript. Used to produce the annotated source.

Codo - CoffeeScript API documentation generator. It's like YARD but for CoffeeScript!

Flow Control

seq - chainable asynchronous flow control; written in javascript, works with coffee (methods ending in underscores added specifically to work with coffee to thread along this explicitly)

SCION - StateCharts Interpretation and Optimization eNgine (SCION) is an implementation of SCXML/Statecharts targeting JavaScript environments.

Module Loaders - CommonJS

browserify - Mix and match coffee and javascript in your browser-side require()s

nibjs - Compile and Concatenate your CoffeeScript files for the browser

Stitch - Stitch CommonJS modules together for the browser. Includes support for CoffeeScript and Eco modules.

Templating

Cupcake - Web App Template Generator for CoffeeScript

DOMBrew - Eloquent DOM Builder

eco - Embedded CoffeeScript templates (the erb of CoffeeScript)

CoffeeKup - Markaby in CoffeeScript

haml-coffee - Haml templates where you can write inline CoffeeScript.

Milk - Mustache templating in CoffeeScript

Testing

coffee-spec - An event-driven unit testing library.

Twerp - Synchronous class-based unit testing framework.

Zombie.js - headless full-stack testing using node.js

Decaf - Slim in Coffeescript

Node.js Web App Frameworks

Coffee4Clients - Renders .coffee files into javascript when requested on a Express.js server

coffeemate - the coffee creamer! Push coffeescript into web development.

CouchCover - mock evironment for testing CouchDB design document functions

DocPad - a language agnostic document management system, which includes built-in support for coffeescript to javascript compilation

Kiss.js - Web framework for Node.js. Object-oriented, simple and sexy.

SocketStream - real-time web framework developed by AOL

Tower - Full Stack Web Framework for Node.js and the Browser.

zappa - DSL for CoffeeKup, socket.io, express

Node.js Server Apps

camo - Asset Proxy for Secure Embedding (used internally by GitHub)

diaspora-x2 - Diaspora ported to XMPP and CoffeeScript.

Groove Basin - no-nonsense music client and server based on mpd and socket.io

Nack - Serve Rack applications from Node.js

Pixel Ping - DocumentCloud's pixel tracker for embedded documents.

Pow - Rack web server for Mac OS X, from 37signals

Other Node.js Libraries

Math - high performance 2D/3D extensions for CommonJS's "Math" module

NowPad - Realtime Text Collaboration for Node.js apps

PDFKit - A powerful PDF generation library for Node.js

Miscellaneous

Blocky - Clientside QR code generation

coffeecoffee - CoffeeScript interpreter (no JS compilation required)

CoffeeLint - A CoffeeScript style checker.

Courier - npm packages in CoffeeScript - (package.coffee) -> (package.json)

Curator.js - A flexible process monitoring and management framework

Curtains - A keyframe & event-driven, general purpose animation tool.

FilePad - Edit your local files in your browser with realtime collaboration

Jim - Vim mode for Ace, the editor in Github & Cloud9 (annotated source)

Moviesualization - Films visualization with processing.js(written in Coffeescript)(github)

Open Tweet Filter - A browser extension to filter tweets. (CoffeeScript + CoffeeKup + Knockout + jQuery)

Rollups — Tool/library to “roll up” sets of event timestamps into counts for specified windows of time

Tag - Simple Terminal.app window titles

ToE - Theory of Everything - MMORPG written in CoffeeScript on node.js and HTML (WebGL, WebSocket)