Quick Start - JavaScript Developers. Dashboard - BrowserStack. Inside Treehouse: Code Challenges. Besides creating videos for Treehouse, I got to work on the Code Challenge engine which is used to test your knowledge and skill by writing real code.
We decided it would be best to build this application independent of the main Treehouse rails application. I got to choose the tools for the Code Challenges, and now I get to share with you what tools I used, why I chose them, and how they worked out. The code challenge is built as two small, independent applications using NodeJS, Dojo, CoffeeScript, RequireJS, CouchDB, and the Ace Editor. Modularity There are two major components involved in the Code Challenge tool.
CoffeeScript. The Little Book on CoffeeScript. Rails 3.
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