Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by balajics » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 2:21 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by pennaMan » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 2:57 PM UTC

The same todo app implemented in a bunch of frameworks:

http://todomvc.com/

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by mkaziz » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 2:57 PM UTC

BackboneJS is a really well-written library, even if it's now beginning to lose popularity. The source code is small enough that it should be easy to read and understand within a few weeks.

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by Daneel_ » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 2:59 PM UTC

This game is a tool for experimentation - it gave me motivation to start learning. You need to write the control software for an elevator (or elevators), which has levels of increasing difficulty to clear, which will mean re-evaluating and rewriting your code to perform better under different scenarios.

http://play.elevatorsaga.com/

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by 2mur » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 3:02 PM UTC

Backbone and Underscore have annotated source code:

http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html

http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by stephengillie » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 3:04 PM UTC

I wanted to make HTML5 games. So I searched and eventually came across an open-source "Catch the demon" game[1]. I studied it and some other Javascript code, and modified the game to take mouse input instead of keyboard[2]. You might be able to make better modifications, or even a better game!

[1]www.lostdecadegames.com/how-to-make-a-simple-html5-canvas-game/

[2]http://gilgamech.neocities.org/demon.html

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by ahmadajmi » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 3:14 PM UTC

I asked this before and I hope it helps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8128400

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by rememberlenny » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 3:17 PM UTC

2mur wrote: post #5

Backbone and Underscore have annotated source code: http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html

+1 for Backbone. It is very well documented

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by nickstefan12 » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 3:31 PM UTC

ExpressJS is pretty interesting with its nested routers, middleware, request handling function as the app, and adjusting the prototype on each request.

It gets kind of hairy so I did a blog post on it: http://www.nickstefan.net/blog/view/express-under-the-hood

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

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Post by tonyhb » Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 3:33 PM UTC

Reflux and it's associated tools for some concise, well written ES6/7 patterns (https://github.com/gaearon/redux)

Gaearon is actually a hell of a JS developer (https://github.com/gaearon).