Javascript tips for the ruby developer

My slide from a talk i gave at Melbourne Ruby on Rails meetup.
i've been writing javascript more or less exclusively for the past year. These are some high level tips that i've learnt.

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1. JavaScript tips for the ruby dev
2. Writing JavaScript is like paying tax you can avoid it for a while, possibly even a long time, but eventually…
4. Lessons learnt in past 11.999998 months
6. I’ve been wrong a lot it’s not you, it’s me and my shitty code
7. Tip Nº1 don’t use JavaScript
8. Use CoffeeScript Much like yesterdays lunch CoffeeScript code is compiled out into JavaScript
9. there are 
 alternatives Dart Typescript github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-languages-that-compile-to-js
10. Split your code into modules
11. require.js
 common.js
 browserfy
 AMD Require
13. Name all the things
15. Avoid inline everything inline scripts in dom
16. Comment your code
17. JavaScript conventions camelCase _private callback [error, result]
18. Linters opinionated jerks
19. JSHint actively developed JSLint the original or have style guides github.com/airbnb/javascript
20. Testing it’s still jumping through hoops
21. I use… karma expect mocha it gives your tests a rspec flavour
23. The rails way
24. It’s ok if you don’t love JavaScript
25. Tips for talking to JavaScript people; not an actual javascript person
26. @mrdougal dougal - sounds like “google”
27. illustrations by @15mindrawings instagram.com/15mindrawings