JavaScript Jabber

003 JSJ Build Tools

by woody2shoes on February 3, 2012

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:01 — 61.8MB)

Panel

• AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog)
• Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Summer Camp)
• Jamison Dance (twitter github blog)
• Yehuda Katz (twitter github blog)

Discussion

• Jamison’s Wishlist
• giant donut
• write code same node / browser – require, syntax
• dev mode – hot reload
• prod mode – compile to giant file
• pluggable (connect-like) pipeline
• Model the problem as a regular build problem
• Source URL
• document.write semantics
• minification
• CoffeeScript
• CSS/LESS
• Rails’ Asset Pipeline
• Sprockets
• Rake
• Performance
• Don’t assume runtime
• Big Javascript Apps vs mostly HTML Apps
• NPM
• Browser code vs Server code
• Download and deposit method vs package manager
• Should browser code be in NPM?
• AMD
• Common JS
• Ender
• Require.js
• Ember.js
• Use synchronous requests when you can.
• Ruby and Python vs JavaScript for server scripting
• Browser Community vs Node Community

Picks

• Eliazor … Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Jamison)
• Exercise (Jamison)
• LivingSocial (AJ)
• DropShare (AJ)
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Yehuda)
• Flint (Yehuda)
• MailPlane (Chuck)
• Speedo Aquabeat (Chuck)

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002 JSJ The Right Way to Build Web Applications

by woody2shoes on January 29, 2012

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:46 — 67.1MB)

Panel

• AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog)
• Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Summer Camp)
• Jamison Dance (twitter github blog)
• Yehuda Katz (twitter github blog)

Discussion

• JSON
• Build the API first
• Resources
• Serializer Gem (Ruby)
• Efficient for widely used browsers
• Ember.js
• Ruby on Rails
• Data Binding
• Backbone.js
• Truth in DOM
• Events
• MVV vs VVV vs MVC
• Knockout.js
• Spine.js
• Angular.js
• Batman.js
• REST
• HTTP Spec

Picks

• Mike Burbiglia (Jamison)
• Inu (Jamison)
• Oh Darling – Plug In Stereo (AJ)
• Parse.com/docs/android_guide (AJ)
• The Yellow Lighted Bookshop (Yehuda)
• Mou (Yehuda)
• Mountain West Ruby Conference (Chuck)
• Outliers (Chuck)
• MacVim (Chuck)
• Janus (Chuck)

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001 JSJ Asynchronous Programming