Examples of beautiful Javascript

Interesting bits are the somewhat-flexible linked list of custom events, the proxying-through of many Underscore methods for Collections, the "inherits" helper function, and so on...

Re: Examples of beautiful Javascript

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Post by combataircraft » Mon, Mar 26, 2012, 4:22 PM UTC

https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent

Re: Examples of beautiful Javascript

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Post by clutchski » Mon, Mar 26, 2012, 4:29 PM UTC

I don't use it, but I am quite impressed with the cleanliness of the Google Closure source.

http://code.google.com/p/closure-library/source/browse/trunk...

Re: Examples of beautiful Javascript

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Post by nchuhoai » Mon, Mar 26, 2012, 4:58 PM UTC

clutchski wrote: post #7

I don't use it, but I am quite impressed with the cleanliness of the Google Closure source. http://code.google.com/p/closure-library/source/browse/trunk...

Agreed the google closure ecosystem is probably the most underrated one here on HN

Re: Examples of beautiful Javascript

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Post by firefoxman1 » Mon, Mar 26, 2012, 5:21 PM UTC

combataircraft wrote: post #6

https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent

Anything from TJ Holowaychuk is beautiful and extremely well-documented.

Re: Examples of beautiful Javascript

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Post by zzaman » Mon, Mar 26, 2012, 5:36 PM UTC

One of the problems I have with articles like these is that they focus on Javascript's use in front-end development so the conversation settles on DOM tools examples of good Javascript.

Using Node.js (i.e. non-DOM server side Javascript) myself, I would love to see examples of beautiful Javascript in general i.e. linguistic best practices, not those specific to DOM programming.

Also, as a side note, for anyone interested in beautiful Javascript in Node.js, I love the examples posted on Express' Github repo: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/tree/master/examples/