JSDev: Executable comments (by Douglas Crockford)

Post by amasad » Thu, Jan 05, 2012, 1:25 AM UTC

Post by oinksoft » Thu, Jan 05, 2012, 2:39 AM UTC

rpwilcox wrote: post #2

As much as I respect Douglas Crockford, did he just reinvent Python's Doctest ( http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html )?

Post by amasad » Thu, Jan 05, 2012, 3:05 AM UTC

ruethewhirled wrote: post #4

Not to knock the work that's been done or disparage the author of this code or similar work that's hosted on github. But these link's to a github repo with minimal documentation and no instructions on how to use the code are frustrating.

Post by ruethewhirled » Thu, Jan 05, 2012, 3:14 AM UTC

amasad wrote: post #5

ruethewhirled wrote: post #4

Not to knock the work that's been done or disparage the author of this code or similar work that's hosted on github. But these link's to a github repo with minimal documentation and no instructions on how to use the code are frustrating.

Documentation with examples in the code comments: https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSDev/blob/master/jsdev.... Keepin' it real, a tool about comments must have documentation in the comments ;)

Post by charliesome » Thu, Jan 05, 2012, 3:47 AM UTC

josscrowcroft wrote: post #6

This does look really interesting and something that we could potentially use ... but I wouldn't know where to start without a little more documentation I'm afraid. Is it a browser extension? Where do I install it? etc. I like the concept of the dev comments automatically being removed by minification, though, no extra buildy stuff required.

    ./jsdev  output.js