"In this video, he uses his friendly conversational approach and hands-on exercises to move you through five key components of this must-know language. Discover the differences of using a fat arrow vs. a skinny arrow when defining functions, learn the quickest way to test JavaScript in a Rails application, explore how to add client-side subscriptions using EventSource and the Sinatra streaming API, generate source map files and use them to debug CoffeScript...

Use CoffeeScript to Write Better JavaScript Code Than Ever Before! If you can do it in JavaScript, you can do it better in CoffeeScript. And, since CoffeeScript "compiles down" to JavaScript, your code will fit neatly into virtually any web environment. In Programming in CoffeeScript, Mark Bates shows web developers why CoffeeScript is so useful and how it avoids the problems that often make JavaScript code buggy and unmanageable. He guides you through...