Coffeescript is an alternative syntax for Javascript.
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Function Is target String found in an Array of Strings in CoffeeScript
I wrote this simple function in CoffeeScript to see if elements are found in an array.
isFoundIn = (searchTerm, arrayToSearch) ->
returnVal = false
for a in arrayToSearch
returnVal = true ...
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Coffeescript nested if's
y = (if @projectionStyle is 'flat' then 0 else
if d3.event.y < -90
-90
else if d3.event.y > 90
90
else d3.event.y)
This is working now, but I feel it's inelegant.
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express, blade with connect-assets
i have this coffee script code running http://chapter.zmgc.net (https://github.com/TZM/tzm-blade)and would like to have your opinion on how better to optimise it.
express = require "express"
gzippo = ...
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vote
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coffeescript and angular directive
I feel this is deeply inelegant, but I really want the option of classical inheritance in the future. How could this be written better. FYI animation here is from GSAP if you are curious.
class Modal
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Cleanest way to close over a counter in CoffeeScript
I haven't spent too much time with CoffeeScript and am trying to have a simple counter:
casper.on('step.complete', ( ->
i = 0
return (step) ->
i += 1
...
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JQuery Dynamic Dropdown Update
This is based (somewhat loosely) on the code written in this railscast. I'm planning to re-use it in different places throughout the site, so I made it a bit more generic rather than based on IDs. ...
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Passing Context in CoffeeScript
I'm trying to migrate from JavaScript to CoffeeScript. However I'm not sure about the best way to optimize the code generated by js2coffee.
Below is the original JavaScript source :
var async = ...
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Angular JS photo app for personal cloud
I've been working on my first Angular JS app for the past few days.
It's in a very early stage (no real functionality), but that will only make it easier to review what IS there.
The client side is ...
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Functional Sundaram's sieve
I wrote this Sundaram's sieve in Coffeescript to quickly generate prime numbers up to limit:
sieve_sundaram = (limit) ->
numbers = (n for n in [3...limit+1] by 2)
half = limit / 2
...
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Code review CoffeeScript implementation of A* algorithm
a_star = # returns the goal node (or null if path not found). To reconstruct path follow the node.__src till null
(
start, # starting node
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My first real JS project, simple form validation
I would really like to hear how I can improve my form validator.
Next, I want to refactor it into OO and learn a testing framework like Jasmine.
Some things I know I could improve
Don't make it ...
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Better way to do this in coffeescript
I was actually writing this little script:
$ ->
# Alter 'input' Width
inputResize = ->
$('form').each ->
tF = $(this)
formWidth = tF.width()
tF.find('input').each ->
...
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Increasing web load time (coffee script and d3.js) [closed]
I took the Bubble chart visualization from Jim Vallandingham: http://vallandingham.me/vis/gates/ and added a few other features such as: a picture over svg, a click function, option to select only ...
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CoffeeScript date formatting
forceTwoDigits = (val) ->
if val < 10
return "0#{val}"
return val
formatDate = (date) ->
year = date.getFullYear()
month = forceTwoDigits(date.getMonth()+1)
day = ...
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Assign local-variables in constructor
How to make this code in constructor more DRY?
Is there some more concise way to assign variables passed through object?
class Ball
constructor: (args) ->
@name = args.name
@x = ...
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CoffeeScript method refactoring
This method is from Backbone-View. I'd like to refactor it but I don't have much experience with Coffee or JavaScript.
linkStyle: ->
if @model.get('published')
'published'
else
...
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Object Wrapper/Parameter Injection Module for CoffeeScript/JavaScript
I made an object wrapper/parameter injector and I hope it will be useful, I made it for a project I am working on but then decided to try polishing it a bit.
The use case is for wrapping objects such ...
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Is there any way to make this CoffeScript code simpler / smaller
I've just started with coffeescript, and I saw http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/04/20/Why-Is-Estimating-So-Hard.html which has a little programming problem, so I figured I'd do it in ...
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Can this coffeescripts method be simplified?
I'm new to coffeescripts. Can the getSum method be simplified more? Thanks
MyObject =
checkCondition: (num) ->
return true if num is 5
getSum: (num) ->
total = 0
total += i for ...
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PageObject implementation (CoffeeScript, CasperJS)
I'm using CasperJS and CoffeeScript for integration testing of a hobby project. Page Objects seem to be a useful abstraction. I had two major requirements:
Support for node.js style callbacks - ...
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looking to make this code cleaner
I need to count non-transparent pixels in a canvas. My code is below. I am pretty sure there is a nice and elegant syntax for doing this. But I am new to coffeescript. Please help. Note that the data ...
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Project Euler question 2 in CoffeeScript
By considering the terms in the Fibonacci sequence whose values do not exceed four million, find the sum of the even-valued terms.
fib = (x) ->
return 0 if x == 0
return 1 if x == 1
...
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Where is the memory leak in this scraper?
This is a scraper written in coffee-script for nodeJS. It is run in an interval (set to 5 seconds here to dramtically show the leak). Somewhere this code leaks memory. I already tried nulling a few ...
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votes
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Is there a better way to structure this in CoffeeScript?
I have this recursive function that searches an object tree structure:
dataSearcher = (dataElement, identifierToFind) ->
if dataElement.identifier == identifierToFind
...
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Is there any javascript pitfalls with this approach that I might be missing?
I have a model with a number of complex/simple properties that has a corresponding strongly typed view, that calls EditorFor to a custom editor template view for the model.
One of the form's ...
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Similar but slightly different JavaScript functions
I have two very similar functions that exist mainly for syntactic sugar.
deactivate = (el, seek) -> el.find(seek).removeClass("active")
activate = (el, seek) -> el.find(seek).addClass("active")
...
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Writing binding providers in CoffeeScript?
In his KnockoutJs 1.3 beta post, Steve Sanderson has an example of using Binding providers ("5. Binding providers (and hence external bindings)") where he makes a comment in the JSFiddle JavaScript ...
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Adding push to array inside the class that is being pushed
I used to mostly do this:
class Person
constructor : (@parent, @data)->
@index = @parent.length
class People
constructor : ->
people = []
for data in database.people
...
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A library written in CoffeeScript
So, I wrote this small library for fast DOM building with API tailored for CoffeeScript
I feel like the code overall can be made better/smaller/faster.
I am also not particularly happy about a few ...
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Short coffeescript style question
I'm going through the CoffeeScript book by Trevor Burnham, and I was curious as to what the best style is for a function I was writing.
In the book the author writes the function like so:
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Coffeescript beautification and refactoring
As much as I try, I cannot seem to get this Coffeescript code to look beautiful (I'd like to think it is possible). I have tried both Javascript and Coffeescript. Just to be clear, this code works ...
