List of Figures

Chapter 1. The road to CoffeeScript

Figure 1.1. Meet Agtron and Scruffy.

Figure 1.2. Agtron and Scruffy doing some spring cleaning of the JavaScript syntax

Chapter 2. Simplified syntax

Figure 2.1. Expression anatomy

Figure 2.2. Expression and statement anatomy

Figure 2.3. Don’t repeat yourself. Use a comprehension.

Chapter 3. First-class functions

Figure 3.1. Anatomy of a function

Figure 3.2. Callbacks are asynchronous.

Figure 3.3. A callback from an external server

Figure 3.4. Summing numbers with operator

Figure 3.5. Summing numbers by folding in a function

Chapter 4. Dynamic objects

Figure 4.1. Phone numbers

Figure 4.2. Object as map from names to numbers

Figure 4.3. Object as tree

Figure 4.4. The receiver of a click event

Figure 4.5. A prototype example

Chapter 5. Composing objects

Figure 5.1. Agtron’s shop homepage

Figure 5.2. Sometimes you need a little sugar.

Figure 5.3. Agtron’s shop with product search

Figure 5.4. Agtron’s shop with stock arrival dates

Figure 5.5. Agtron’s shop with news announcements

Chapter 6. Composing functions

Figure 6.1. How not to write programs

Figure 6.2. Visualizing compose, before, after, and around

Chapter 7. Style and semantics

Figure 7.1. Table of teams ranked by points

Figure 7.2. Stick to common language patterns, but be careful of ambiguity.

Chapter 8. Metaprogramming

Figure 8.1. The CoffeeScript compiler is written in CoffeeScript.

Figure 8.2. The internal CoffeeScript compilation process

Figure 8.3. An example abstract syntax tree