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Re: Show HN: Coffee Filter, useful coffeescript functions for user interaction

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Post by mgeraci »

rgbrgb wrote: post #2

These all look pretty useful but they all seem kind of unrelated and the project strikes me as kind of unfocused. It would be cool if the these features were added to a larger project like Bootstrap.

Totally. It's not necessarily meant to import into your project whole hog, it could just as easily have been a set of gists. So feel free to pick and choose ones that you might find useful!

Re: Show HN: Coffee Filter, useful coffeescript functions for user interaction

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Post by bmelton »

I generally don't get much value out of things that look like pet libraries on here, but there are a few utilities in here that I have genuinely missed having in the past, so kudos there.

Completely offtopic though, the 'drip' icon actually bugs me, and I actually had to stare at it for a minute before I realized why -- you've got brewed coffee dripping from a pristine filter. S'weird.

Re: Show HN: Coffee Filter, useful coffeescript functions for user interaction

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Post by mgeraci »

bmelton wrote: post #4

I generally don't get much value out of things that look like pet libraries on here, but there are a few utilities in here that I have genuinely missed having in the past, so kudos there. Completely offtopic though, the 'drip' icon actually bugs me, and I actually had to stare at it for a minute before I realized why -- you've got brewed coffee dripping from a pristine filter. S'weird.

Haha, that's an MVP animation. The next iteration will have a filter that slowly gets saturated and THEN drips.

Re: Show HN: Coffee Filter, useful coffeescript functions for user interaction

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Post by lazerwalker »

A lot of these seem really useful -- a nice set of things I've grumbled at having to write myself before as well as things that I haven't had a need for but I could very easily see being useful.

Out of curiosity, is there a reason you're actively marketing it as CoffeeScript helpers? For people using it as a drop-in library, it shouldn't make a lick of difference whether it's written in CS or vanilla JS, especially since you have the compiled JS in the GitHub repo. That isn't to say that you should be obscuring the fact, but right now the name says to me that being written in CoffeeScript is a significant part of the value being provided, which doesn't really seem to be the case.

Re: Show HN: Coffee Filter, useful coffeescript functions for user interaction

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Post by mgeraci »

lazerwalker wrote: post #6

A lot of these seem really useful -- a nice set of things I've grumbled at having to write myself before as well as things that I haven't had a need for but I could very easily see being useful. Out of curiosity, is there a reason you're actively marketing it as CoffeeScript helpers? For people using it as a drop-in library, it shouldn't make a lick of difference whether it's written in CS or vanilla JS, especially s…

Thanks a lot. The CoffeeScript marketing is threefold:

- I think CoffeeScript is really cool, so I like spreading the language.

- I wrote them in CoffeeScript for a Backbone app also written in CoffeeScript, so for what it's worth it's more "authentic"

- I thought Coffee Filter was a cute name

Glad you might find them to be useful!

Re: Show HN: Coffee Filter, useful coffeescript functions for user interaction

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Post by nachteilig »

rgbrgb wrote: post #2

These all look pretty useful but they all seem kind of unrelated and the project strikes me as kind of unfocused. It would be cool if the these features were added to a larger project like Bootstrap.

Totally agree. A lot of this stuff would be a nice fit for Bootstrap especially.
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