coffee-guard-caat-jessie¶ ↑

About¶ ↑

Kickstart HTML5 project bundling CAAT, CoffeeScript, Jessie and Guard.

Live: nbartlomiej.github.com/coffee-guard-caat-jessie .

Why use such set of tools?

• CAAT is one very cool portable javascript framework (github.com/hyperandroid/CAAT).

• CoffeeScript is a way of making JavaScript concise (jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/).

• Jessie allows to run Jasmine specs in console (github.com/futuresimple/jessie) and Jasmine is a nice BDD framework for JavaScript (pivotal.github.com/jasmine/).

• Guard (github.com/guard/guard) auto-generates JavaScript files from CoffeeScript and auto-runs Jasmine specs through Jessie.

• It’s efficient!

Usage¶ ↑

Dependencies: bundler gem, gems defined in the Gemfile, local node packages: coffee-script and jessie; install with:

1. gem install bundler
2. bundle install
3. npm install
5. run 'guard', hit enter (a.k.a. compile and test)

Workflow:

1. cd into project directory
2. run: 'guard' in a console window (for more details see https://github.com/guard/guard)
3. write specs in ./spec directory
4. write application code in ./src directory

CAAT and Coffee controversy¶ ↑

Fun fact: this project is kitsch. Observe: the principle behind CAAT is to use exactly the same piece of code everywhere; and here we’re putting on top CoffeScript, a language that compiles into JavaScript. Truly barbaric.