I think the main reason people encourage others to compile to JS is that it can be a prepublish script to npm (you don't have to change .coffee to .js manually every publish) and in doing so you do not require 'coffee-script' to be loaded by the module that uses yours, making requirements of modules that require yours can lead to odd assumptions, like if coffee-script should be at a specific version or if the parent module. Messing with parent modules is a big nono generally, since it basically is requiring global (usually) state to be modified to use your module.
On Thursday, December 6, 2012 1:21:17 PM UTC-6, Alan Hoffmeister wrote: > > Than why bothering compiling it to js? It's much more easy to maintain it > with coffee files. > > Em quinta-feira, 6 de dezembro de 2012, Nathan Rajlich escreveu: > >> Not at all. In fact compiling into JS before runtime would make >> boot-up time faster as well. >> >> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Alan Hoffmeister >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Does it impact the module performance? >> > >> > -- >> > Att, >> > Alan Hoffmeister >> > >> > >> > >> > 2012/12/6 mscdex <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> On Dec 6, 1:34 pm, Nathan Rajlich <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Very cool Alan! One recommendation though is to move "coffee-script" >> >> > to "devDependencies" and then publish the compiled JS to npm, rather >> >> > than (or alongside) the .coffee file. As a non-coffee user, I >> >> > shouldn't have to install "coffe-script" if I wanna use your module. >> >> >> >> +1 >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> >> Posting guidelines: >> >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> [email protected] >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> > Posting guidelines: >> > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "nodejs" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected] >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > > > -- > -- > Att, > Alan Hoffmeister > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
