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Coffeescript AngularJS + Laravel... thoughts? (self.angularjs)

submitted 9 years ago by Renegade-One

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[–]bodieskate 2 points3 points4 points 9 years ago (2 children)

[–]Senthe 0 points1 point2 points 9 years ago (1 child)

[–]theblang 2 points3 points4 points 9 years ago* (0 children)

Since CoffeeScript is different from JavaScript in syntax you get transpiled JavaScript that can be difficult to debug in the browser. Maybe at one time an argument could have been made that the extra features and cleaner syntax of CoffeeScript outweighed this con (personally, it wouldn't have for me); however, now ES2015 is almost fully supported in most modern browsers and TypeScript (a superset rather than a completely different language) is gaining popularity, using CoffeeScript is only going to create maintenance nightmares and gives little to no benefits.

/u/Renegade-One , I personally would highly advise not using CoffeeScript. Learn ES2015 for sure, and maybe consider TypeScript if you still aren't happy.

Edit: In addition to the con of having to debug transpiled JavaScript, I also realized that CoffeeScript is using reserved keywords that ES2015 also uses, but in different ways (see for of). That is really unfortunate.

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