We're going to start some JavaScript projects, and I'd like to know:
How Do You Develop JavaScript apps/libraries?
There are IDEs like Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ and so on, all of which have
some sort of JS capability. Also a new one, Cloud9 which, believe it or not,
is written in JavaScript natively! Generally these aim for a debugger, and for
browser related programming, a way to preview your work in a browser within the
IDE.
Then there are TextEditors, with fewer bells & whistles, but with syntax
highlighting and keyword completion, and generally a way to run your code in
your default browser.
Then there is a more do-it-by-hand approach: use a simple text editor, and
create a work flow using the the JS engine and debugger in the browser.
Firefox and Firebug are quite popular, but Chrome and Safari also have
developer tools. Often you'll just build a tiny HTML page with the JS inline,
just to see how it all works.
Finally, for just experimenting and exploring, there are JS "shells", generally
the browser JS engines but runnable outside of the browser on the command line.
SpiderMonkey, WebKit, and Rhino are examples
So the question is: how do you do your JS programming? And good hints/ideas?
-- Owen
============================================================
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
