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Comment on Shuffled Row Solver by Allan

Allan — Sat, 04 May 2013 13:49:39 +0000

High score is 534; “quantized” 210

Comment on JavaScript Architecture: RequireJS Dependency Management by Kunwar Sangram Singh

Kunwar Sangram Singh — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:03:12 +0000

Recently got interested in web app development and starting exploring frameworks and declarative ways of glueing javascript and other modular components.
Googled for hrs read blogs but most of the post lead to further confusion and explaining kool functions then actual pattern.
Finally found this series. Thanks A TON !! :)

Comment on Size Text to Container by Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:07:22 +0000

thanks Aaron,
I understand what you mean and I’m trying to adding an event handler to my text.
Do you know how to turn a TLFTextField on stage in a text flow?
I’m going crazy to find a solution ..

Comment on Size Text to Container by Aaron Hardy

Aaron Hardy — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:53:53 +0000

Andrea, that shouldn’t be a problem. If you look at the source of the demo you’ll see I have:

textFlow.addEventListener(FlowOperationEvent.FLOW_OPERATION_END, flowOperationEndHandler);

And the flowOperationHandler is what performs the resizing. You should just need to follow the same pattern by adding an event handler to your own text flow.

Comment on Size Text to Container by Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:31:00 +0000

Hi,
very good job.
is it possible to apply your method to an existing TLF on stage?
How can i do?
thanks

Comment on JavaScript Architecture: The Basics by reshe

reshe — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:50:21 +0000

thanks for this great article, I am a noob with js, and hope this will help we get started in learning more advanced javascript and technics.

Comment on JavaScript Architecture: RequireJS Dependency Management by Aaron Hardy

Aaron Hardy — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:01:16 +0000

Hi Kris. Thanks for stopping by. There are some nice libraries for helping mock dependencies. Check out these if you haven’t already:

https://github.com/mattfysh/testr.js
https://github.com/jrburke/requirejs/wiki/Test-frameworks

Those should help you out. I’d be curious to know if you still run into problems.

Comment on Shuffled Row Solver by Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:04:23 +0000

High score without cheating is 416 with word LAXATIVE at 126. Highest cheating using this site is 516. Oddly enough I didn’t have a word better than my ‘real’ laxative!

Comment on JavaScript Architecture: RequireJS Dependency Management by Kris

Kris — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:00:56 +0000

Hi Aron, nice writeup, well explained. I wish you would include testing in this context.
I chose Backbone and RequireJS for the reasons you mention here, since my app will be really large and needs good structure, modularization and therefore dependency mgmt. The app is coming along fine and I decided its time to start setting up a test framework, thinking it should be really easy to mock out any dependencies since I’m using require… But after a week of trying every solution I can find I’m starting to despair. This is obviously an area that is in dire need of examples!

Comment on JavaScript Architecture: Backbone.js Models by Aaron Hardy

Aaron Hardy — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:30:53 +0000

Hey Eugen, thanks for the question. You’re right, Backbone doesn’t really proactively facilitate any particular way of passing around models or sharing them. I usually don’t find it difficult or problematic to manually pass models from view to view, however. An alternative is to use a global (eww.) or if you’re using RequireJS make an AMD module that you can access and share.

Other thoughts:

When appropriate I try to use a pub/sub bus like the EventAggregator found in Marionette (https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette) or postal.js though that deserves a much larger discussion.

I’d like to see more discussion about Inversion of Control containers in the context of Backbone. Many dynamic language hipsters poo-poo it but I think it has its place (as it does in AngularJS).