CoffeeScript Console

It's a clone of the 'Try CoffeeScript' functionality from the CoffeeScript website, for the Google Chrome browser developer tools.

Usage

It's a bit lame on the features at the moment, but here they are...

• Typing CoffeeScript in the editor panel (left) compiles to JavaScript directly in the right panel
• Press ctrl + i to inject from the editor pane into the active tab
• Syntax highlighting (via CodeMirror)

Install

Download the latest version here (It's the *.crx files you're after).

Or just install it as an unpacked extension, the details to do that are here

Please note you need Chrome 15+ with the command line option --enable-experimental-extension-apis enabled.

To build

To build just run the following from the base directory, which will create you the .crx extension to install into chrome

./build.sh

Future features

• Show responses to commands injected simular to Chromes console panel.
• History support
• Can we pass forward all the $0, copy() etc... commands???
• Implement js2coffee for reverse compile

Contributing

The project uses the branching model outlined here, so basically do any commits on the develop branch. There's also a tool called gitflow which helps with this branching model. Also note you'll have to run the following to compile the coffeescript during development

coffee --watch -c js

External Libs

Coffeescript Console uses these awesome open source libs:

• http://codemirror.net - For the editor panes and syntax highlighting
• http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ - Unsurprisingly