Summary

Amazingly, that's all you need to know about CoffeeScript and Node. There's plenty more to learn about the Node ecosystem, but with your expert knowledge of the CoffeeScript language, you'll find it quite easy to interact with new server-side modules using our favorite language. We've seen just how easy it is to use CoffeeScript and JavaScript side by side in both client and server environments, so you're ready for anything the future holds.

In this chapter, we learned how to:

• Write our server-side Node project in CoffeeScript

• Integrate our CoffeeScript code in a Node framework like Express

• Call out seamlessly to JavaScript modules such as nstore

• Use Cakefiles to modularize common development tasks

You've done it! You've reached the end of the line! We started with the very basics of CoffeeScript, and now we're writing idiomatic, beautiful code. Not only have we learned the language, we've learned how to refactor and use classes and inheritance. We've learned how to tame asynchronous...