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

Aaron Hardy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:38:27 +0000

@Trouble,

Thanks for stopping by. I hope your real name is Trouble ’cause that’d be aaawesooome. For those who don’t know what you’re talking about, I think you’re referring to this:

https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/pull/710

I’ve chimed in to give my support for supporting AMD in their libraries. I think the other folks on the list have done a good job at representing the pros and cons. It’s a bummer they’ve decided to remove AMD support but I’d rather have both backbone and underscore not support it than only underscore (which is how it currently is).

Overall, I think AMD is a great standard and needs to happen.

@nros83 Thanks. It is quite juicy!

Comment on JavaScript Architecture: Organization and Quality by Aaron Hardy

Aaron Hardy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:27:30 +0000

Very observant and those are great questions. I think it comes down to your project, organization, and style. I do feel like completely abstracting the core libraries, though maybe ideal, is overboard in most cases and can be difficult and resource-intensive to do right. If you really like the features of Backbone then writing an abstraction layer would likely end up being basically a pass-through layer. The theory is right, but if you decide to change libraries, you’ll likely be changing not only because of speed, robustness, etc, but because of improved APIs. At that point, better APIs won’t make much of an impact without also changing your abstraction layer…which can defeat its purpose.

The line doesn’t have to be completely on one side or the other though. For example, I’d consider making a toggle button backbone-agnostic because it’s very possible someone in the organization might want to use it without backbone (even if it’s us in the future) and backbone isn’t crucial in something so granular. On the other hand, the more container-like (less granular) views are quite specific to my project and backbone really comes in handy so I feel more comfortable using backbone. Where that line starts or where you start abstracting is up to you and your team. How’s that for vague?

Comment on JavaScript Architecture: Backbone.js Views by nross83

nross83 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:39:26 +0000

This is a very tasty series and your good examples make it really easy to follow. I’m pretty impressed with Backbone and how they have tried to come up with nice conventions to shorten your code (like in your Event Delegation section). Just pure juiciness.

Can’t wait for the next addition to your series.

Comment on JavaScript Architecture: Backbone.js Views by Trouble

Trouble — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:00:29 +0000

Precious like the Other Posts! i really appreciate your Tutorials!
What are you thinking about the “war” between backbone.js/underscore.js and require.js/AMD??

Are u planning to write something about AMD + Documentcloud?

From Germany

Comment on JavaScript Architecture: Organization and Quality by Ksenia

Ksenia — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:15:03 +0000

Hi Aaron, very interesting post series, especially as I’m discovering JS apps architecture.
Have a couple of questions, though. In his presentation on scalable JS arch Nicholas Zakas advises us to abstract out the frameworks (JQuery is in his list too). I wanted to ask your opinion on how much libraries/frameworks are allowed to be used in modules? For me it seems a little bit paranoic to build own abstraction around another abstraction built around DOM operations. I understand the implications that some day I will fall in love with some other lib, but is it worth the effort?
Another side of this same question is using backbone, does this also contradict to Zakas’ architecture and we should abstract out backbone?

Thanks again for your effort on working on this series!

Regards,
Ksenia

Comment on Loading a Remote Module into a Local App by Aaron Hardy

Aaron Hardy — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:01:31 +0000

Hey Maurice. I remember working with runtime fonts a couple years back and I ran into a bunch of problems. Not so much loading the font, but getting the font swf right and registering it correctly. You can see a chronology of my battle here:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/465439

I know I used several articles to help me figure it out. One of them is no longer available. I think this is a good one: http://bit.ly/4FyegT

I hope you find what you need.

Comment on Loading a Remote Module into a Local App by Maurice

Maurice — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:47:57 +0000

I am trying to use StyleModuleMarshallers to load an external swf with a font embedded (css converted into swf) in Flex 4.5.

In the modReadyHandler i can see it gets the font (event.currentTarget.factory._info.fonts).

Could you tell me how i can then do a Font.registerFont(font)?

Any help would be appreciated. Also the strange thing, in debug locally it works but when i put the app online it generates an error: Error #2044: IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2124: Loaded file is unknown type.

Thanx!

Comment on Loading a Remote Module into a Local App by Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:36:32 +0000

I wasn’t able to get StyleModuleMarshaller to actually apply the loaded styles to the app. I found I needed to add a call to loadStyleDeclarations in the modReadyHandler override in order to actually get them applied.

// Even though the url is passed in, it’s not going to re-fetch/load the module,
// so there’s no unnecessary performance penalty.
mx.core.Singleton.getInstance(“mx.styles::IStyleManager2″).loadStyleDeclarations2(url, updateStylesImmediately, null, null);

As I note in the comment, I debugged and verified that the module isn’t actually being refetched, since the ModuleManager singleton maintains a map of all requested URLs and their loaded modules.

Just floating this out there in case anyone else is trying to use StyleModuleMarshaller without success.

Comment on JavaScript Architecture: Backbone.js Collections by Trouble

Trouble — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:36:05 +0000

Wow!! Great Series! i read all of them! waiting to see soon some Articles about Views and Router!

Thanks a lot Mr. Hardy

Comment on JavaScript Architecture: Backbone.js Events by khurram

khurram — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:23:12 +0000

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