JavaScript: Islands, Sprinkles, and Frameworks with Zach Briggs and David Copeland
March 8th, 2017
42 mins 52 secs
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Episode 005: JavaScript: Islands, Sprinkles, and Frameworks
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Summary
Dave Copleand (@davetron5000) and Zach Briggs (@theotherzach) join Noel Rappin (@noelrap) for a Tech Done Right discussion of JavaScript practices. When does it makes sense to build single page JavaScript app? How can your JavaScript and Rails interact? Is it an island of interactivity or a sprinkle of JavaScript? Which frameworks are handling community management well (hint: not Angular)? And how do you test any of this?
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Dave Copeland: Author of Rails, Angular, Postgres, and Bootstrap
Zach Briggs: JavaScript Practice Lead at Table XI
Show Notes
02:15 - Reasons to Build a Single-Page App
09:37 - The Ease of Building Web Over Single-Page Apps
11:30 - Tooling; Navigating Good Choices vs Bad Choices
14:31 - Setup
16:30 - Combining a Rails App and a JavaScript App
18:34 - AngularJS; 1 vs 2
33:05 - Testing
35:35 - TypeScript
Tips & Resources:
Dave: Check out Test Double.
Zach: As a developer, don’t feel forced into choosing between a single-page app and a non-single-page app on the first day of development. There are infinite points in between when it comes to interactivity.
Noel: Read about frameworkless JavaScript in Noel’s book Master Space and Time With JavaScript.