Summary

In this hour, you learned about CoffeeScript, a pre-compiler for JavaScript. You learned that you can use it with Node.js projects and examined features like syntax, loops, objects, and classes. You learned about the pros and cons of using CoffeeScript as opposed to writing native JavaScript. You covered the productivity boosts that CoffeeScript can offer, issues with debugging and collaborating, and how CoffeeScript sidesteps some of the more difficult parts of the JavaScript programming language.