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We've been off grid for the second half of 2014, mostly because everyone seemed to have toned down the hipster nonsense. However, Glen Maddern roars into 2015 with beatmatching gifs, ES6, and YAJSML (Yet Another JavaScript Module Loader).
No sign of our prediction for the biggest trend of 2015 yet: the return of document.write with streaming. You heard it here first.
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If you thought a backcall-style continuation was a particularly tricky move to pull off on a razor-thin single-speed bicycle, you need to spend more time collecting new languages that you totally intend to learn properly, but somehow forget that it exists until it enters the mainstream and becomes terrible.
We've just tried out ki, and managed to re-write yo in a single line of beautiful, functional, single-origin code. It includes 'lazyness' (sic) and 'atoms' as features, which sums up this authors approach to existence generally. You had me at immutable.
Everything we write has been a microservice since before writing everything as a microservice was cool. But since we're craftsmen we demand something cleaner than a big jumble of stringly-typed REST calls. Retrofit is the answer. Write an interface describing the REST service you're connecting to, add some Retrofit annotations and you're done.
Since we're siding with the beardy guys in the TDD is dead debate it's worth pointing out that Retrofit also makes it ridiculously easy to unit test the code that interacts with the REST service.
Since one contributor to this blog has sold out and works for a large streaming content corporation now it's also nice that Retrofit supports returning RxJava Observables from annotated methods so we can mainline the company Kool-aid whilst using it.
Writing the tests after I've written my new framework
Want to use Angular but troubled by Google's questionable ethics (not to mention their ubiquity)? Over Handlebars (these days it's all about mountain man beards)? Try Ractive – a templating library that aims to combine the elegance of Mustache with high performance DOM manipulation and 2-way binding. Even better it comes from The Guardian so your code can wear its ethical credentials on its sleeve.
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Are you:
Completely over the CoffeeScript hype like 2 years ago?
Secretly missing some of the features of CoffeeScript?
Willing to abuse introspective features of JavaScript?
If all three of the above is true, then you should check out Sindre Sorhus' somewhat icky-feeling multiline library.
Another day another Node-based build tool. This one has a nice retro vibe in that it aims to be Make-like using pre-existing command line tools rather than requiring plugins. Hopefully that doesn't extend to emulating Make's "I'll break your build because you used a tab in the wrong place" policy.
What with upgrading our startup's build from Grunt to Gulp to Broccoli to Bud I'm not quite sure where February went. One more shiny new build tool this quarter and investors are going to start asking questions.
Imagine this likely scenario: you work on your ceramic burr grinder drop ship store at nights and your organic cat saliva bike decal glue formula at weekends.
One may have to pay for all this real work with a troublesome day job of some kind. The paymasters at this particular day job don't share your own passion to make things The Right Way using Hapi and Om, and in fact may even claim their 'hands are tied' and you find yourself having to work with, ugh, Java. Like the whole coffee tie-in isn't an obvious attempt to pander to urban 'trendies' by enterprise douches. Guys, this is 20th Century technology.
Still, all is not lost. Just as jRuby saved us back in the day (2009), you can now hide the ugly stepchild under the (original, untreated) floorboards by using Nodyn. Yes, write ClojureScript that compiles to JavaScript that runs on Node.js that compiles to the JVM. Simple! Elegant! I think so, anyway. I mentioned this to my work colleague and he grumbled something about 'nth generation language silliness' that I didn't understand. But he's also 20th Century technology.
Erlang feeling played out? Go too mainstream? Too many people assuming you must code in Haskell just because you're sporting those same high-waisted pants as Joaquin Phoenix in Her
One word… Julia.
Imagine the reaction you could get by saying this:
Oh, you're still using Grunt? Personally I've moved on from the declarative paradigm.
Who wouldn't want to be able to casually drop phrases like "functional reactive" and "streaming" when talking about their work? Even when said work is just building a static marketing website using Twitter Bootstrap? Gulp.js allows you to do just that.
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Now that Yeoman is everywhere we're starting to feel pretty uncomfortable advertising our use of it. It would be like being that guy still talking about Vampire Weekend even though they've had three hit albums and soundtracked a Tommy Hilfiger commercial.
Well Hallelujah! From now on we'll be using FireShell. It's another front-end bootstrapping tool that gives you a fully-configured Grunt build and a skeleton HTML5/Sass project. Like with Yeoman minification, concatenation, Bower integration and that kind of stuff are all ready out of the box.
There’s nothing we like better than turning up our noses at inefficient CSS and here’s a tool that can help us keep the edge. CSSCSS analyzes CSS or SASS (we like to kick it old skool ourselves but, whatever) finds duplicate rules and, like, shows you where they are.
Ever wanted to turn legacy JavaScript into CoffeeScript? Now you can, either online or via the terminal
npm install -g js2coffee
You should totally set this up as a git post commit hook to definitively win the war with that one guy on your team who insists on still using JavaScript.
CoffeeScript? That's so 2012. We're already porting our stuff to Six the ECMAScript 6 pre-processor. I guess you wouldn't have heard of it yet but you will soon because we'll be making sure everyone can overhear us affecting blasé detachment whilst discussing it in the latest pop-up dirty food joint.
Surely everyone knows by now that 2013 will be the year of Functional reactive programming (FRP) on the client-side? We totally ditched all those irksome callback functions ages ago, and we even re-wrote the Node.js core libraries for FRP, something which the Node.js dudes flagrantly copied with streams. If you want to buy into this particular bandwagon, you could do worse than take a look at Bacon.js. As a strict vegan I had to roll my own implementation of FRP of course, which I'm calling celeriac.js.
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Obviously we use Chrome Canary as our primary desktop browser but if we sell out and our startup goes mainstream there's the disturbing possibility that we might start attracting visitors using things like Safari, or even _shudder_ IE. Test 'em is the slickest solution I've seen for running various flavors of JavaScript test in multiple browsers. It can pre-process CoffeeScript, run tests automatically as files change, produces [Tap](http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) compatible output and most importantly has a lo-fi tabbed command line interface.
Bower
I'm the kind of sharp guy who likes to roll my own everything: cigarettes, fresh pasta, nori. So, you know, I don't really need a package manager to handle my handcrafted artisanal JavaScript and CSS. I'm a vanilla JS user, and hey, just because my last project took a lot longer than I said it would, it's because that shit is handcrafted. With love. So yeah.
If you were the sort of lame-o that still uses third-party libraries (if you are still using jQuery why are you even reading this site?), then I guess you could use Bower, which is some kind of package manager for client-side code. It was made by some guys at Twitter, though, so I can't use it anyway because I'm boycotting everything they do until they un-ban my 'fixietoot' Mac client - the one that forces you to type exactly 140 characters for every tweet.
