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Practical JavaScripting

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Me! University of Bath Computer Science Student Software Developer at Kainos Blogger at javascriptplayground.com Talker on upfrontpodcast.com Twitterer @Jack_Franklin

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Free Stuff 5 Copies of "Beginning jQuery" to get rid of Tweet #port80jquery and I'll pick some randomly.

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What we're not going to talk about Do NOT let me do my Welsh accent we won't discuss England letting Wales beat us at rugby

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The Agenda Web Sites vs Web Apps Sensible JavaScript Writing Workflow & Tooling Don't get caught in the storm Book giveaway (Easy) Questions and (hopefully some) Answers

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Web Sites vs Web Apps is there a difference?

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I don't think there is any difference and that's a good thing

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we're all building sites people visit, do something and leave stop trying to differentiate

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differentiating web sites vs web apps is no good to anyone

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a lot of people ignore new JS tools, methods or approaches because those are just for "web apps"

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don't be so quick to discredit your code

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Writing sensible JavaScript

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I get to see a lot of JavaScript and people write some weird stuff

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People put a lot of thought into CSS (OOCSS, SMACSS, etc) (and this is a good thing) But does the same happen with the JavaScript?

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Too often people treat JavaScript like a black box of magic and throw everything into one file

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Too often it's an after thought let's quickly add some jQuery to animate that button

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"weeks of coding can save hours of planning"

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Let's talk about jQuery

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ditching jQuery has the time come?

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jQuery 2 drops IE6, 7, 8 jQuery 1.X supports them

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jQuery isn't going anywhere fast and the file size isn't that big...

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Organise your code multiple JS files, modular approaches

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organising your code is really simple lots of files and a bunch of script tags

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or you can go further AMD approaches like Matt talked about look at RequireJS

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learn how JavaScript works

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bits of JavaScript will catch you out and even jQuery can't save you from that

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the better you know JavaScript, the better you know jQuery Would you write SCSS without knowing CSS?

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regular JS isn't that bad. Make an effort to improve your JS knowledge you can still use jQuery. Knowing JS means you'll use it better and appreciate it more learn.jquery.com

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Tooling

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don't dismiss tools out of hand but don't go crazy and use them all, either

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The JS ecosystem has evolved a gazillionbillion* times over * needs attribution

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you're not a real developer if you don't use the command line* * loljk.

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Grunt! does everything. gruntjs.com

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Testing Minifying & Building Validating Templating

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you might not think your site needs {insert library here}

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there are a lot of times when you think your solution is too basic to require any additional libraries / tools but any chance you get to make your life easier is worth taking

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not getting caught in the storm

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don't worry about using the newest of the new tools if you do this, you'll never get any work done

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sure, when something new pops up, give it a quick look people (like me) will blog about them

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find a workflow, set of tools and some of your favourite libraries that work for you stick with them

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revisit every few months to see if something new has popped up

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spot small things that take up too much time and solve them

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Something takes you 5 minutes to do You spend an hour setting up that tool which makes that 5 minute thing a 1 minute thing everytime you do it you now save 4 minutes do that thing 15 times = your hour back

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take time to improve and perfect your workflow mundane but important tasks should be effortless

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the moment a mundane task takes considerable effort, you wont do it

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build for small wins lots of small wins > one big win

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we're all building web applications just some are a bit more complex than others

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develop accordingly, but don't treat your JS like this black box of magic

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and go make awesome

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Books! I'm going to give 3 out now randomly via Twitter Which means I'll have 2 left. At the after party, come and find me and tell me your best joke. If I like it, you can have a copy. If I don't, you get to buy me a drink.* * not really. Twitter Draw

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Stickers! Come and find me.

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Questions? jackfranklin.co.uk @Jack_Franklin @upfrontpodcast / upfrontpodcast.com javascriptplayground.com tilvim.com github.com/jackfranklin toomanysoddingsideprojects.com* * not really