Announcing the first release of batman.js
batmanjs.org
Announcing the first release of batman.js
1–10 of 78 posts
Re: Announcing the first release of batman.js
#2Hey guys, happy to take any questions you have about the framework, either here or in IRC. We're on freenode in #batmanjs
Re: Announcing the first release of batman.js
#3hey Nick,
Great to see it released! One thing I always find helpful is a comparison/discussion of where it fits with others in this realm.
congrats, Jack
Re: Announcing the first release of batman.js
#4PLEASE:
body{ color: #000000; }
Thankkk you!
Other than that, looks cool! Definitely will be trying it out in my projects and reporting back!
Re: Announcing the first release of batman.js
#5I'd like to see some examples in JavaScript, instead of CoffeeScript. Since at this point only a smaller subset of developers use CoffeeScript, I think it might be overall useful to more people if the provided examples used plain JavaScript (that, and CoffeeScript developers tend to understand JavaScript already, and may already be used to converting one to the other).
Re: Announcing the first release of batman.js
#6From the site: "It gives us great pleasure to finally announce the release of batman.js to the JavaScript community today. This release represents the first code dump of something we’ve been working hard on at Shopify for a long time, so we’re very excited to get it into your hands and see what you do with it."
I got zero value out of this lead.
When you launch a product like this, please tell us why we'd want to use this. As developers, we don't have a bunch of time to parse your project notes. "It's like XXX, but offers these advantages..." At this moment, I don't know what batman.js is actually useful for!
Re: Announcing the first release of batman.js
#7The templating layer looks eerily similar to Zope Page Templates / TAL (see http://chameleon.repoze.org/). Old-skool, baby! :-)
Anyway, it's like the love child of Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile, and perhaps more intuitive than both. I'll definitely play with it some tomorrow to see whether it holds up to its promise.
Re: Announcing the first release of batman.js
#8From the site: "It gives us great pleasure to finally announce the release of batman.js to the JavaScript community today. This release represents the first code dump of something we’ve been working hard on at Shopify for a long time, so we’re very excited to get it into your hands and see what you do with it." I got zero value out of this lead. When you launch a product like this, please tell us why we'd want to use…
Just two sentences after that, it lists exactly what it offers. One click away is the homepage which has much more detail. Are you seriously _so busy_ that you can't read a couple of lines more? And if you really are, please do practice skimming!
Re: Announcing the first release of batman.js
#9PLEASE: body{ color: #000000; } Thankkk you! Other than that, looks cool! Definitely will be trying it out in my projects and reporting back!
p { color:#222; } will do
Re: Announcing the first release of batman.js
#10I'd like to see some examples in JavaScript, instead of CoffeeScript. Since at this point only a smaller subset of developers use CoffeeScript, I think it might be overall useful to more people if the provided examples used plain JavaScript (that, and CoffeeScript developers tend to understand JavaScript already, and may already be used to converting one to the other).
Sure, valid point. It's not something we work on day to day, so I don't have any readymade examples, but I'll definitely look into it. Thanks!