Thanks, Garrett - I'll fix those. On Jan 21, 3:51 pm, Oleg Slobodskoi <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice to see people have the same problems like me :) > > I am working on a similar module, it is not ready yet, but I would like to > give you my opinion about methadone. > > 1. The most bad part is you class like declarations. At this point you are > completely changing the way to write javascript, don't do it! > 2. Loader - there already some really good commonjs loader out of there, > f.e. requirejs, you should use one of them! > 3. Unneeded preprocessor - if you want to have a small footprint of js and > css, you SHOULD preprocess your files with minifier, because they optimize a > lot! So due to the fact we HAVE to do preprocessing, wrapping modules with > AMD is not a problem at all. There are also a lot of other stuff we can > nicely preprocess:https://github.com/kof/node-ams/tree/master/lib/processors > > About my project node-ams: > > 1. it is is build tool > 2. it is dependecies detector with purpose to combine files > 3. it is easy extendable preprocessing tool > 4. it is static file server > > 2011/1/21 Andrew Stein <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > My employer, Benchmark Solutions, has released this open source > > framework y'all may enjoy: > > >https://github.com/benchmark-solutions/methadone > > > It introduces declarative Modules & Classes into Javascript through > > some overloaded labels & runtime code reflection (though the code > > reflection can also be run in advance on the server ...), essentially > > amounting to a small DSL for static dependency analysis & > > namespacing. > > > Though there are many frameworks available for this, we felt there was > > nothing which satisfied everything we wanted: > > > 1) Does not load scripts via XHR or document.write("<script ... "), as > > we feel that these types of loading tricks obscure the debugging > > process & make writing reusable libraries tied to a specific > > implementation. > > 2) Does not require a separate preprocessor, code transformation or > > compilation step to run in the browser - though powerful, we wanted > > the code you see in the browser to be the exact same code you wrote in > > your IDE. > > 3) Has a clean API that doesn't "get in the way" of how you already > > write javascript - a framework that provides a class construct > > shouldn't reinvent the wheel with regards to Javascript's existing > > prototype system. > > > There are some existing bugs and questionable design decisions, but we > > would love constructive feedback from the community! > > > -- > > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<jsmentors%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups > > .com> > > -- > regards, > Oleg @oleg008 > github.com/kof
Sorry, I'm a little confused as to your first point. Methadone's Class definitions are annotated, but otherwise the verbatim pattern for Javascript constructor declaration - what makes this different from the same declaration with no annotations? When I say that Methadone aspires to "not get in the way" of your javascript coding, I specifically meant to call out frameworks like RequireJS which necessitate parameter based module definitions & introduce their special notion of script loading as a dependency to your library. Methadone does neither of these things, letting you write essentially straight Javascript w/ some annotations, without making any assertions about how you should preprocess, minify or load your application. Enabling this sort of functionality with the same ease of which you would include JQuery or Underscore is the ongoing justification for its development. Minifying, preprocessing directives, parallel async script loading - these are all great features - and yet totally irrelevant to providing declarative modules & namespacing to Javascript. If you want these things in your application, you can use them alongside Methadone without issue. -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
