Chapter 3. Building a Simple Application
We've set up our CoffeeScript work environment, and we've also learned a whole bunch of new syntax for writing good CoffeeScript. Now it's time to put all of that knowledge to work! In this chapter, we'll dive into building our web application. We'll need everything we have learned in the previous chapters, but now, we'll be using it to build a cohesive product. We'll also stop along the way to learn about several more vital features of CoffeeScript that will help us build a better application.
We're going to create a web application for a small pet shop. We'll start out by creating a page to display the pets who are currently staying at the pet shop, so that prospective customers can browse and check if the shop has a pet they like. Our application will be a lightweight web page with most of the logic in JavaScript. Of course, we won't be writing JavaScript; we'll write CoffeeScript and let the compiler take care of the dirty work!
We will:
Set up our...
