CoffeeScript Tutorial

CoffeeScript is a light weight language which transcompiles into JavaScript. It provides better syntax avoiding the quirky parts of JavaScript, still retaining the flexibility and beauty of the language.

Audience

This tutorial has been prepared for beginners to help them understand the basic functionality of CoffeeScript to build dynamic webpages and web applications.

Prerequisites

For this tutorial, it is assumed that the readers have a prior knowledge of HTML coding and JavaScript. It would help if the reader has some prior exposure to object-oriented programming concepts and a general idea on creating online applications.

Execute CoffeeScript Online

For most of the examples given in this tutorial, you will find Try it option, so just make use of this option to transcompile your CoffeeScript programs to JavaScript programs on the spot and enjoy your learning.

Try the following example using the Try it option available at the top right corner of the below sample code box −

console.log "Hello Welcome to Tutorials point"