CoffeeScript brings new elegance and efficiency to the writing of JavaScript. It helpfully enforces JavaScript best practices. And it compiles into highly performant JSLint compliant code. The golden rule of CoffeeScript is: “It’s just JavaScript”.

Home Base

CoffeeScript.org

• CoffeeScript on Twitter
• CoffeeScript on Github

Introductory Overviews

• CoffeeScript – Wikipedia entry — Be sure to see the sources and related links in this entry
• CoffeeScript Intro Video by Sam Stephenson of 37signals, with textual notes and screenshots added — aLittleCode.com

Perspectives on CoffeeScript

• Debate at Nettuts+: Should you learn CoffeeScript? (multiple perspectives given)

CoffeeScript Basics: Introductory Articles and Tuts

• The CoffeeScript Syntax — at CoffeeScript.org
• CoffeeScript Basics Video Tutorial — Convert JavaScript to CoffeeScript — Railscasts Episode 267 — a really nice tut
• Writing Better JavaScript with CoffeeScript: The Basics — SixRevisions
• Rocking out with CoffeeScript — Nettuts+ – (also may follow Nettuts CoffeeScript tag)
• CoffeeScript for Beginners — dandemeyere.com — Part 1 and Part 2
• Get CoffeeScript running on Windows in node.js

CoffeeScripter’s Toolkit

• js2Coffee.org — quickly convert JavaScript to CoffeeScript, and vice versa
• CoffeeScript Cookbook — online recipes — “CoffeeScript recipes for the community by the community.”

CoffeeScript Books

• CoffeeScript — an Interactive Reference by Trevor Burnham — iBooks (iTunes $4.99)
• Alex MacCaw, “The Little Book on CoffeeScript,” O’Reilly (ebook $7.99, print $8.99) — Previous version online

What is this list missing?

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