Using CoffeeScript in Production

There are some issues that people often run into when trying to use CoffeeScript. The first is having to compile your code before it can run in a web page. The second being that if you use CoffeeScript with Node, it can be difficult to set up a basic web page in Node. Testing has long been an issue with javascript and having separate tests for the brower and Node makes things even more troublesome.

We will be discussing various plugins and commands to automatically compile your CoffeeScript and libraries that will help you get set up quickly in Node, including Express for routing and Jasmine for in Node and in browser testing.