July 2012
4 posts
5 tags
Components
With the advent of numerous client-side JavaScript package managers, I wanted to write up some of my thoughts about the fragmentation that we have today, and some ways that I think we could really improve delivering packages a community. Keep in mind that these are only my opinions, everyone has done a great job and there’s a lot of cool work going on out there.
I think there are a few...
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git-extras introduction screencast
This screencast is an introduction to the git-extras project and covers the following commands:
git setup
git ignore
git summary
git effort
git changelog
git release
Git aliases
My personal git aliases as promised:
alias gd="git diff | mate"
alias ga="git add"
alias gbd="git branch -D"
alias gst="git status"
alias gca="git commit -a -m"
alias gm="git merge --no-ff"
alias gpt="git push...
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Page.js 1.2.0
Along with better API docs the page.js 1.2.0 is released, the client-side micro router.
The additions are subtle, the first is a ctx.querystring property exposing the query string, followed by the complimenting ctx.pathname to reference the ctx.path void of query string. @ovaillancourt also added support for passing query strings in the first place, which was arguably a bug, and added...
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Mocha 1.3.0
A relatively minor release this time but we’ve still got some cool new features!
Scrolling HTML reporter
The window will now scroll to follow along with larger test suites, and the statistics are fixed to the upper right-hand corner, a small but nice touch.
Custom reporters
Mocha has quite a few bundled reporters now, so future reporters that are not deemed important enough to provide...
