Sessions at nodePDX 2012 about CoffeeScript

Saturday 11th February 2012

• Object-Oriented Patterns in JavaScript

  by Jesse Hallett

  JavaScript is a language that is tremendously flexible, but that comes with few clear conventions. Code organization is one are that has been reinvented perhaps more times than there are JavaScript programmers. I will examine a few tools that are intended to improve the experience of writing object-oriented code.

  Some of the specific tools that I plan to examine are traits.js, CoffeeScript, Prototype, and JiverScripts. The goal is to get a look at different ideas to see what each approach has to offer. We will discuss inheritance versus composition, and question when it is or is not appropriate to use object-oriented code.

  Audience participation is encouraged: if you have a favorite OO implementation, or experiences with JavaScript code organization, feel free to come and to share.

  • CoffeeScript
  • JavaScript
  • JiverScripts
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Prototype

  At 1:00pm to 1:45pm, Saturday 11th February

  Coverage slide deck video