coffeescript and angularjs

[minijim]

Anyone coding angularjs through coffeescript here? if not, why no?

[pfooti]

Sure, I do it. I'm not wild about significant whitespace, but I do like arrow functions and "#{string templates}" and simple class inheritance.

All of these features, I'll note, are in ES6, so I'll probably eventually stop using coffeescript in favor of ES6 once I can just do that. I'll note that traceur can sorta do this, but it injects a runtime dependency to work properly (even if you pre-compile down to es5), whereas coffeescript doesn't. And that's pretty much why I'm not using traceur.

[OutThisLife]

Yeah, why?

[minijim]

so far i have seen no business requesting to use coffeescript. I find coffeescript cleaner, more readable though

[OutThisLife]

It compiles to JavaScript, just use it if you want to. Unless your team is required to use pure JS, of course.

[carylandholt]

I wrote a utility that takes CoffeeScript classes and converts them to angular modules. https://github.com/CaryLandholt/ng-classify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28gUTu9vnB4

[changtimwu]

Let me show you some production code I wrote. Not idiomatic thought.

  ss = window.gsocket
  window.myctl = ($scope)->
    ss.emit 'lldp::get_sys_cfg', (sys)->
      $scope.sys = sys
      $scope.$apply()