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yeoman / generator-webapp_DEPRECATED

Yeoman generator that scaffolds out a front-end web app
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Feature: CoffeeScript support #605

Closed bryceroney closed 8 years ago

bryceroney commented 8 years ago

It would be neat to have an option for those users wishing to use CoffeeScript to compile their JS.

silvenon commented 8 years ago

We had CoffeeScript support, but we removed it in favor of Babel.

CoffeeScript was created to patch some shortcomings of JavaScript (other than to provide some syntactic sugar). Now that we have an ES2015 transpiler, there's no real need to support CoffeeScript anymore. We generally advise using plain JS over CoffeeScript because it's native (i.e. new features will be faster), the barrier of entry is lower (e.g. Atom being written in CS only increases the barrier) and it already has most of CoffeeScript's features, so there is less and less reason for CoffeeScript to exist.

eddiemonge commented 8 years ago

Adding CoffeeScript to your generated app is as easy as following the instructions at https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-coffee
You could also always fork the repo and add CoffeeScript back if you wanted to.