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Hashchange Routing with can.route - Part 1 - Basics

This article is the first of a two part series on CanJS's hashchange routing system - can.route. This part walks through the basics of hashchange routing and how can.route can be used for basic patterns. Specifically, it covers:

Justin Meyer

Justin Meyer

Faster jQuery.event.fix with ES5 Getters

If you turn on a profiler in most of the apps we've built and click around like a user, after a while you'll notice jQuery.event.fix is often taking the most time (in the video below, it takes 6.34% of the total time). Following the logic behind Amdahl's law, it makes sense that making jQuery.event.fix faster would have the greatest impact on our apps. This article walks through:

Justin Meyer

Justin Meyer

Avoid the Memory Leak Zombie Apocalypse

Memory leaks are an extremely common problem in JavaScript applications.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

Introducing CanJS

This past Tuesday, at JSConf in Pheonix, Bitovi released CanJS (download). CanJS is the MVC parts of JavaScriptMVC, extracted into a single script download, with additional features that make it sizzle. There’s a lot of client-side MVC libraries out there, but this article will explain what sets CanJS apart from its competition.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

Significant Whitespace

If you haven't read it already, please read Ryan Florence's A Case Against Using CoffeeScript. It's well thought out and makes a lot of interesting points. But for me, the most important one was: Significant White-space Means CoffeeScript Will Always Be Compiled.

Justin Meyer

Justin Meyer

Deferreds and 3.1

3.1 Backlog - Deferreds

jQuery 1.6 brought Deferred support. They are a great feature that promise to make a lot of asynchronous functionality easier to write and manage. But many people struggle with uses other than 'waiting for a bunch of Ajax requests to complete'. For JavaScriptMVC 3.1, we identified an extremely common but annoying practice that becomes a one-liner with deferreds: loading data and a template and rendering the result into an element.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

Premier Training Lessons Learned

Before the Thanksgiving holiday, I was lucky enough to spend 4 days training Premier on JavaScriptMVC. It went really well. But, with each training I learn invaluable lessons. Here's what I took away from this trip:

Justin Meyer

Justin Meyer

FuncUnit Infographic

FuncUnit is pretty awesome. But it might not be clear how it works in Browser vs Command (Selenium) mode. To help, I put together 2 quick illustrations that highlight what's going on.

Justin Meyer

Justin Meyer

Organizing A jQuery Application

Earlier this week, I realized that every organizing-a-jQuery-application blog, article, and conference talk misses the most important lesson on how to organize a jQuery app.

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel

Writing the Perfect jQuery Plugin

jQuery is an excellent DOM abstraction, but compared to other libraries, it leaves much to desire towards building complex, reusable functionality. There's lots of good examples and resources, but most of them fall short in providing a pattern that is:

Justin Meyer

Justin Meyer

A crash course in how DOM events work

DOM events are something that web developers often take for granted, especially with libraries like jQuery. The complexity and low-level mechanics of events are abstracted away. As far we're concerned, snippets like the following:

Brian Moschel

Brian Moschel