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CoffeeScript In The Wild

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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.

WordSquared - Massively multiplayer online scrabble

Tools and Frameworks

Build and Deployment

settings - Simple, hierarchical environment-based app settings.

Design Patterns

WebActors - Actors for JavaScript

Documentation Generators

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

Module Loaders - CommonJS

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

Templating

eco - Embedded CoffeeScript templates (the erb of CoffeeScript)

Testing

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

Web App Frameworks - Node.js

zappa - DSL for CoffeeKup, socket.io, express

CouchCover - mock evironment for testing CouchDB design document functions

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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