I'm wondering what kind of tricks and setups other people have when they are developing with jQuery. Be it writing some improvements to jQuery itself, or writing a plugin. I'm not really looking for those using jQuery in an application, cause that environment is normally just taking a few jQuery files and plugins and including that into your existing development environment.
I'm trying to find out how people (plugin and core jQuery developers) normally handle their development environment for working on jQuery or a jQuery plugin. Every time I work on another piece for jQuery, I end up creating a new html file, which normally consists of either copying some junk from another project and modifying it, or constructing a new one by grabbing a doctype and a few tags off some references on the internet. I also end up grabbing jQuery again to shove in and include. As for actually testing stuff, I normally might just go off the filesystem, however sometimes that doesn't quite work right, and I end up needing to configure a local webserver (normally I just edit the config for my local nginx). Things get real ugly when working on patches to jQuery core itself. Mostly because of needing to `make jquery` all the time. Sometimes I end up sitting there for a few minutes trying to figure out "why the hell didn't my edit fix this bug?" then realize I forgot to rebuilt jquery before I refreshed the page to test it. All in all, I don't really consider it a nice and clean, or even helpful environment. For that reason I've actually started experimenting with building a Rails app to manage projects and streamline things like creating html pages from templates, previewing a page and working on code live, as well as nice integration for github forks of jQuery (fork/clone as in gitspeak), jQuery svn, and different versions of jQuery. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
