Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to integrate CoffeeScript using:

• A special version of the CoffeeScript compiler that runs directly in the browser

• Browser add-ons to support CoffeeScript in the developer console.

• The Rails asset pipeline

• Brunch, the web application assembler

• A Node package that provides an asset pipeline as Connect middleware

This chapter was all about finding the tools to bring convenient, well-organized CoffeeScript support to our favorite web frameworks. Hopefully you've been able to use these on a project or two that was desperately in need of CoffeeScript's eloquent syntax.

There's one more place to use CoffeeScript that we haven't covered yet: the server! Next chapter, we'll learn all about using CoffeeScript in Node.js, and we'll try it out by porting the Express application we wrote in this chapter from JavaScript to CoffeeScript.