Summary

At the beginning of this chapter, we had a lot of knowledge but nothing to show for it. Now, we've got a snazzy single-page web application built with all the goodness of CoffeeScript! There's still a lot more that we can add to our application, but this is a pretty good start.

We learned:

  • How to set up a CoffeeScript application to behave like a normal JavaScript application
  • How to manipulate the DOM from CoffeeScript, and how to call back to CoffeeScript functions on events
  • How to define functions in CoffeeScript, how to name them, and how implicit return values work
  • How to use switch statements

Now that we've had a chance to flex our new CoffeeScript muscles, we're going to hit the gym again. We'll keep adding to our application as we go, ...

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