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CoffeeScript In The Wild

Applications

Ars Technica iPad application - Official Ars Technica application for the iPad

camo - Asset Proxy for Secure Embedding

Chalk - A simple drawing application for the iPad

cortex - "core technologies" - MMO game platform written on node.js and WebGL

diaspora-x2 - Diaspora ported to XMPP and CoffeeScript

Gates of Olympus - A browser based 3d tower defense game, using webgl (source)

HotelTonight iPhone application - HotelTonight is the best way to book a same-day/last-minute hotel stay. The entire iPhone app is written in Coffeescript, on top of Appcelerator Titanium. Thus, it is not a web app, but a native, installable app, with great performance and looks great.

Tools and Frameworks

Documentation Generators

Docco - a quick-and-dirty literate-programming-style documentation generator for CoffeeScript. Used to produce the annotated source.

Templating

eco - Embedded CoffeeScript templates (the erb of CoffeeScript)

node.js web app frameworks

zappa - DSL for CoffeeKup, socket.io, express

Testing

Zombie.js - headless full-stack testing using node.js

CommonJS Module loaders

requisition - Server-side module library packer and client-side module loader -- via require()

Miscellaneous

tag - Simple Terminal.app window titles

courier - npm packages in CoffeeScript - (package.coffee) -> (package.json)

Math - high performance 2D/3D extensions for CommonJS's "Math" module

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