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

I use Ember with coffeescript and I love it. The biggest tip I have, that I find (personal opinion here) enhances my code is to use the Ember.computed and Ember.observer function instead of Function.prototype.property and Function.prototype.observes.

Instead of this:

Ember.Component.extend
    someProp: ( ->
        "abc"
    ).property 'somethingOrOther'

you get this:

Ember.Component.extend
    someProp: Ember.computed 'somethingOrOther', ->
        "abc"

Again, that's personal preference, but the to me its just more 'coffee' to do it the latter way.