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by jashkenas 4493 days ago
There's a bunch of lovely gems scattered through the Atom repos. Some of my favorites from a first quick glance:

Biscotto — A CoffeeScript API documentation generator based on TomDoc notation:

http://atom.github.io/biscotto/

React-Coffee — A little glue that makes Facebook's React easy to use from CoffeeScript without having to resort to JSX:

https://github.com/atom/react-coffee

SpacePen: A minimalist view library for jQuery, allowing custom methods, super calls, HTML-building, subviews, and easy event binding:

http://atom.github.io/space-pen/

... and the best bit about this bonanza is that everything is really quite readable. Keep up the good work, Kevin.

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I'm confused, why would they be working on React and SpacePen? Don't they do (roughly) the same job?
React is defined by its declarative nature (for ease of coding) and virtual DOM (for performance). Not sure if SpacePen does the same, but at a first glance of the documentation I'm not seeing anything along those lines…
I have a feeling that started out looking at React but opted to go with SpacePen for some reason.
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