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cwrc / HuViz

LOD visualization tool for humanities datasets

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use bulk-decaffeinate to convert to javascript ES6 #294

Open smurp opened 5 years ago

smurp commented 5 years ago

The source-code for HuViz is in CoffeeScript. CoffeeScript was a reasonable choice when this project began, but the world has moved on. JavaScript has evolved and it is now tricky to make our coffeescript-based HuViz play nicely with more modern code and techniques. The latest practical version of JavaScript is ES6.

The tool https://github.com/decaffeinate/bulk-decaffeinate aids the conversion away from CoffeeScript.

Benefits:

ES6 modules
ES6 Promises
ES6 classes
modernize building
modernize testing
async/await

smurp commented 5 years ago

See https://github.com/smurp/huviz/issues/102