In my last two posts on JavaScript for Windows 8 I looked at scope and namespaces. I pointed out that namespaces could be used to create “static” classes. I hasten to add they can be used for more, don’t make a hard link in your brain between namespaces and static classes.
Today AppHarbor announced beta support for Background Workers, I have been eagerly awaiting this announcement as it is something I need all the time when hosting sites.
In my last post I explained a little about scope in JavaScript and why you should (and the default templates do) wrap each of your files in a self executing function.
One note about my code snippets. For simplicity I will be concatenating what would in a real application be multiple .js files into a single code snippet. I’ll use comments to show you where the files break.
This week at Code52 we are taking on our first Windows 8 app. Just to make it interesting we are doing it using the HTML / JS stack instead of C# / XAML.
Last week I contributed a tiny piece of code to the Code52 Metro.css project. My contribution was a node script that creates a boilerplate Node.js website for you using the Metro.css styles, Express and wires up the LESS compilation.