[Sugar-devel] Web activities + CoffeeScript

[Rogelio Mita]

2013/11/8 Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>

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


Thanks Daniel, I'll do some research on those WebKitGTK versions about
sourcemap.


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> On Friday, 8 November 2013, Rogelio Mita wrote:
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>> 2013/11/8 Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org>
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>>> Hi Rogelio,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Rogelio Mita
>>> <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?
>>>
>>> It appeared a few times.
>>>
>>> In January when sugar-web didn't exist:
>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-January/041616.html
>>>
>>> Then in August I wrote, after doing Gears activity:
>>>
>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-August/044445.html
>>>
>>> "(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!
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>> --
>> Roger
>>
>> Activity Central <http://activitycentral.com/>
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> --
> Daniel Narvaez
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It's good that we give importance to the use of Coffeescript as an
alternative to a prototype-based language such as javascript, with all that
implies, it will be very useful for who come to class-based languages such
as Python.

Thanks


-- 
Roger

Activity Central <http://activitycentral.com/>
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