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CoffeeScript middleware for TurboGears2

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About tgext.coffeescript

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles to JavaScript. Underneath all those awkward braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

tgext.coffeescript is a middleware aimed at making TurboGears2 development easier, tgext.coffeescript converts regular coffee files to javascript using the official CoffeeScript compiler.

tgext.coffeescript is based on tgext.scss by Alessandro Molina and is under the same license (MIT).

Installing

tgext.coffeescript can be installed both from pypi or from bitbucket:

easy_install tgext.coffeescript

You will also need to install the CoffeeScript compiler, for instructions on this check their website.

CoffeeScript

Enabling tgext.coffeescript

Using tgext.coffeescript is really simple, you edit your config/middeware.py and just after the #Wrap your base TurboGears 2 application with custom middleware here comment wrap app with CoffeeScriptMiddleware:

from tgext.coffeescript import CoffeeScriptMiddleware

make_base_app = base_config.setup_tg_wsgi_app(load_environment)

def make_app(global_conf, full_stack=True, **app_conf):
    app = make_base_app(global_conf, full_stack=True, **app_conf)

    # Wrap your base TurboGears 2 application with custom middleware here
    app = CoffeeScriptMiddleware(app)

    return app

Now you just have to put your .coffee files inside public/javascript and they will be served as JavaScript.

JavaScript Compression

tgext.coffeescript supports javascript output minification via slimit or jsmin as a fallback, this function is disabled by default and can be enabled by passing the parameter minify=True on the constructor:

app = CoffeeScriptMiddleware(app, minify=True)

Cache Backends

You can change the cache backend storage into any dict like object that can serialize a dict object, for example, you can use beaker cache by passing the cache object to the middleware constructor:

from tgext.coffeescript import CoffeeScriptMiddleware
from tg import cache

make_base_app = base_config.setup_tg_wsgi_app(load_environment)

def make_app(global_conf, full_stack=True, **app_conf):
    app = make_base_app(global_conf, full_stack=True, **app_conf)

    # CoffeeScript with beaker cache backend
    app = CoffeeScriptMiddleware(app, cache=cache)

    return app

Compiler options

Currently tgext.coffeescript turns the –bare compiler option by default, this means that the resulting javascript output will not be wrapper under a top-level function, if you want to reverse this behaviour you can tell the middleware to disable it:

app = CoffeeScriptMiddleware(app, bare=False)

This will disable the bare options for all files served with tgext.coffeescript, more granular control of this option may be available later depending on the need for it.

Jinja2 Extension

tgext.coffeescript provides an extension for jinja2 templates to compile CoffeeScript embedded directly on your templates. To activate it just add to your config/app_config.py file the following:

from tgext.coffeescript.jinja import CoffeeExtension

base_config.jinja_extensions = [CoffeeExtension]

Now you can use the coffee tag in your templates:

<style type="text/javascript">
{% coffee "main" %}
    console.log state for state in ['open', 'close', 'full']
{% endless %}
</style>

Where “main” is a unique identifier for that CoffeeScript section, this should output nicely as:

<style type="text/javascript">
var state, _i, _len, _ref;

_ref = ['open', 'close', 'full'];
for (_i = 0, _len = _ref.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
  state = _ref[_i];
  console.log(state);
}
</style>

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