David Perez davps

Put a closure on it

Sometimes you'll have objects that manage state along with event handling. This happens frequently in MVC apps. Let's start with a messy example:

var Launcher = function(rocket) {
  this.rocket = rocket
}

Launcher.prototype.isReady = function() {

Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't

	<!DOCTYPE HTML>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Backbone Memory Management</title>
	<link href="style.css">
	<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.1.1/css/bootstrap-combined.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
	</head>
	<body>
	<div id="app" class="container">
	<h1>Zombie Destroyer 3000</h1>

	#!/bin/sh

	cd /usr/local/share
	wget https://phantomjs.googlecode.com/files/phantomjs-1.9.0-linux-i686.tar.bz2
	tar -xjf /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.0-linux-i686.tar.bz2
	sudo ln -sf /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.0-linux-i686/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
	git clone git://github.com/n1k0/casperjs.git /usr/local/src/casperjs
	cd /usr/local/src/casperjs
	git checkout tags/1.0.2
	ln -sf /usr/local/src/casperjs/bin/casperjs /usr/local/bin/casperjs

	#!/bin/sh

	cd /usr/local/src
	wget https://phantomjs.googlecode.com/files/phantomjs-1.9.0-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
	wget https://github.com/n1k0/casperjs/tarball/1.0.2
	tar xvjpf phantomjs-1.9.0-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2tar zxvf 1.0.2ln -s /usr/local/src/phantomjs-1.9.0-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
	ln -s /usr/local/src/n1k0-casperjs-bc0da16/bin/casperjs /usr/local/bin/casperjs
	phantomjs --version
	casperjs --version

	/**
	* World's simplest express server
	* - used to serve index.html from /public
	*/

	var express = require('express');
	var serveStatic = require('serve-static');
	var app = express();

	app.use(serveStatic(__dirname + '/public'));

	JIRA on a raspberry pi 2
	Since the raspberry pi 2 comes with 1 GB RAM and a 900 MHz quad-core I wanted to give it a try
	if it is capable of running JIRA

	Download free trial linux .tar.gz archive from https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download?b=j

	Untar with tar -zxvf <archive>

	Check java version and set JAVA_HOME
	Make sure that you have a java version installed that is supported by JIRA

	// Place user-specific overrides in this file, to ensure they're preserved
	// when upgrading
	{
	"folder_exclude_patterns": [".svn", ".git", ".hg", "CVS", "node_modules"]
	}