Tower.js - JavaScript Framework for Node.js modeled after Ruby on Rails

Re:Tower.js - JavaScript Framework for Node.js modeled after... by malandrew on Monday February 27, 2012 @08:48PM (#3641443)

It's not just an hour to learn. There's also the time to set up tools and environment. It's added complexity up front, and that alone is enough to turn people off because there is nothing so wrong with javascript to warrant the effort.

If you know javascript well and are familiar with it's many gotchas and you know how to use your text editor well with javascript, the coffeescript really doesn't add more than it detracts.

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Re:Tower.js - JavaScript Framework for Node.js modeled after... by thenduks on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @12:16PM (#3643901)

So, with something like Tower.js the code is written in coffee to start with (https://github.com/viatropos/tower/tree/master/src), but in the repo (and in npm) you'll actually get the resulting JavaScript as well (https://github.com/viatropos/tower/tree/master/lib and https://github.com/viatropos/tower/tree/master/dist).

This is generally true of most CS projects. I can't speak specifically to whether or not you can use Tower.js without coffee, just saying don't discount a project because the author wrote it in CS. Spine.js (http://spinejs.com) is a great example of what I'm talking about.

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