CoffeeScript: The Good Parts—Write Better javaScript

The good and not so good parts of CoffeeScript in comparison to JavaScript.

3.35 (28 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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Web Development

What you will learn

Understand CoffeeScript syntax (semicolons, whitespace, parentheses)

Understand automatic var insertion mechanism and while manual var might be bad in native JavaScript

Use CoffeeScript conditions

Use CoffeeScript functions (fat and skinny arrow ones)

Use CoffeeScript classes

Use CoffeeScript arrays

Use CoffeeScript splats

Use CoffeeScript comprehensions

Why take this course?

The CoffeeScript is a language that was built on top of JavaScript. CoffeeScript has some added benefits and its code is compiled into native JavaScript for execution. The CoffeeScript pros include: better syntax, function and class construction patterns, automatic var insertion, comprehensions and others.

Most of these perks will be obvious once we take a look at some examples. This quick language reference can get you started with CoffeeScript:

Semicolons, Whitespace and Parentheses • Vars
Conditions
Functions
Classes
Arrays
Splats
Comprehensions

This course is prepared by the author of nine (9!) books on JavaScript and NodeJS. This course has video presentation as well as documents.

Reviews

Arthur

December 20, 2021

Thought the instructor was knowledgeable and engaging I wish he could do a full length course on this topic - really good stuff here.

Yiorgos

August 18, 2017

I remember I took this course because I wanted to learn minimal CS to program the Hubot. Obviously I am not a good fit for the intended audience.

July 24, 2015

This does not go far beyond what you can learn by simply perusing the CoffeeScript site (in much less time). Poor audio quality on many of the lectures.

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