Changelog Interviews – Episode #46
YUI 3, Node.js, JSLint, Douglas Crockford Code Reviews
with Adam Moore and Satyen Desai
Featuring
Adam and Wynn caught up with Adam Moore and Satyen Desai from the YUI team to talk about YUI 3, Node.js, and working with Douglas Crockford.
Notes & Links
- YUI is the Yahoo! User Interface library, a collection of front end code goodies for JavaScript and CSS
- Follow the YUI Blog for the latest developments, such as the new 3.3.0 release
- Adam Moore and Satyen Desai are engineers on the YUI team.
- The Autocomplete widget provides a flexible, configurable, and accessible implementation of the AutoComplete design pattern.
- The DataTable widget renders columnar data into a highly customizable and fully accessible HTML table
- The Dial widget is an alternative to sliders
- The YUI Charts recently moved from Flash to JavaScript in YUI 3
- The Community developed the drag/move component
- YUI is on GitHub, fueling community involvement
- YUI Theater is a great source for JavaScript talks and all things YUI
- Douglas Crockford is the author of JSLint, the JSON spec, featured on Episode 0.2.6 from TXJS
- Nicholas C. Zakas aka @slicknet is the author of a number of JavaScript books
- Eric Miraglia is the Engineering Manager for the YUI team
- JSLint improves your JavaScript but will not spare your feelings
- Dave Glass - has a great talk about YUI + Node
- “I love async, but I can’t code like this”
- Many of the additional Node.js modules deal with parallel execution
- Adam suggests targeting features, not platform since features like touch will be on the desktop eventually.
- Satyen’s talk on YUI’s mobile strategy
- The module pattern in JavaScript
- The YUI Gallery lists discoverable components contributed by the community