MASTER COFFEESCRIPT AND BREW UP COMPLEX JAVASCRIPT APPLICATIONS FASTER AND EASIER THAN EVER BEFORE

Highly descriptive and easy to read, the CoffeeScript language adds syntactic sugar to JavaScript, making it faster and easier than ever to create complex JavaScreipt apps. Besides requiring one-third less code than JavaScript, CoffeeScript lets you program with more sophisticated features, such as list comprehension and pattern matching.

Getting the hang of CoffeeScript can be a bit tricky at first, especially for programmers who cut their teeth on JavaScript parents, brackets, and often frustrating syntactic quirks. Written by expert Alex Hudson, this book gets you up and running with CoffeeScript right away. Featuring dozens of full-color illustrations and screen shots, this step-by-step guide delivers what you need to:

• MASTER COFFEESCRIPT LANGUAGE, SYNTAX, AND PATTERNS-FAST
• PRODUCE MORE CONCISE, BETTER QUALITY CODE IN ONE-THIRD THE TIME
• DEVELOP BRILLIANT MOBILE APPS AND RICH INTERNET APPS IN COFFEESCRIPT
• GET THE HANG OF ADVANCED HTML5 FEATURES AND REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION IN COFFEESCRIPT
• USE COFFEESCRIPT WITHIN NODE.JS PROJECTS
• BLEND JAVASCRIPT WITH COFFEESCRIPT FOR VASTLY BETTER OUTCOMES

With Smashing CoffeeScript to guide you, in no time you’ll be writing perfect code with CoffeeScript and streamlining your JavaScript development.