[Sugar-devel] Web activities + CoffeeScript

[Daniel Narvaez]

We use webkitgtk 2.0.4. It's a few months old, I wonder if it would work in
2.2.x.

On Friday, 8 November 2013, Rogelio Mita wrote:

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> 2013/11/8 Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'manuq at laptop.org');>>
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>> Hi Rogelio,
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>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Rogelio Mita
>> <rogeliomita at activitycentral.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'rogeliomita at activitycentral.com');>> wrote:
>> > Hi all!,
>> >
>> > working with web activities urges me to use CoffeeScript.
>> > - Is there any decision taken on this?
>> > - Do you discussed this topic in some occasion? or is irrelevant?
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>> It appeared a few times.
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>> In January when sugar-web didn't exist:
>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-January/041616.html
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>> Then in August I wrote, after doing Gears activity:
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>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-August/044445.html
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>> "(GearSketch) It is written in coffeescript, and after playing for a bit,
>> I
>> can see it as a possible choice for activity developers.  Its syntax
>> sugar makes the code look more like the gtk activities written in
>> python."
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> +1
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>> "One of the reasons we went for plain js for sugar-web was because of
>> the View Source feature.  Well, seems that since I researched a few
>> months ago, Source Maps has improved a lot, and I can see coffee code
>> in the web inspector. If the code breaks or if I add a breakpoint, for
>> example.  Nice!  Also, GitHub does a nice job displaying only the
>> coffee changes, and hidding the JS changes by default:"
>>
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> Nice!, also, I was playing a bit:
> - With the --map flag in coffee compiler I can use debbug function in
> browser
> - With a lib source-map-support.browser.js I can use error backtrace
> function in browser
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> These points work in my chrome, but when using "enable sourcemap" on
> osbuild did not work any of the above points.
> What browser are using to web activities?
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>> So yes, it is a potable option for web activity developers.
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> +1, but really wanted to understand what the problem through which osbuild
> not work.
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>> Now, in some real projects it happened to me that I started using
>> Coffe or TypeScript and ended falling back to straight JS.  Think
>> about A. the compilation step B. no way to try things in the inspector
>> console C. need to translate code examples and known solutions from JS
>> to Coffee
>>
>> --
>> .. manuq ..
>>
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> Thanks Manuel!
>
> --
> Roger
>
> Activity Central <http://activitycentral.com/>
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Daniel Narvaez
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