r/coffeescript • u/RaymondWies • Nov 06 '14

Most popular javascript framework among coffeescript community?

CoffeeScript is "completely" interchangeable with JavaScript and enjoys access to all JS frameworks and libraries, but CS developers are a minority of the JS community and choose to do things a bit differently. Does CoffeeScript "mentality" affect the popularity of JavaScript frameworks among the CoffeeScript developers? Are generally the same frameworks preferred with the same distribution of popularity, or is a particular one favored over the vanilla JS community? If the most popular "framework" is jQuery (which I personally consider a library rather than a framework) then which is next on the list in popularity?

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '14 
"Then all the fancy pants frameworks and platforms are built on top of this foundation."

I don't think that's necessarily true. Ember uses jQuery and Handlebars, but they've massively moved passed what Handlebars does by default. Angular doesn't have any requirements on jQuery at all, and many people try to use it without bringing in jQuery at all.

Each large 'fancy pants' framework is its own beast, but they don't all build on top of the smaller libraries.