CoffeeScript Application Development

Summary

We've covered a lot of ground in this chapter. We learned:

• How to use variables.
• How to call functions.
• How to use if/else statements and their counterpart, unless.
• How to use natural-language aliases to make our comparison statements more readable.
• How to declare arrays, and iterate through their contents in a number of different ways.
• How to declare and iterate over objects.

Not only did we learn about all those things, but we made sure to avoid a few common mistakes, and learned why it was possible to make those mistakes. We've compared many of the CoffeeScript statements to the compiled JavaScript, so hopefully you're developing a good mental map of how CoffeeScript translates to JavaScript.

Now that we've got a solid handle on the basics, ...