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0 pointspbreit14y ago0 comments

I still don't really understand when I would consider using it. Would you use it to create some or all of Shopify?

Maybe this blurb from the documentation could find its way to the hoe page:

batman.js is a framework for building rich single-page browser applications. It is written in CoffeeScript and its API is developed with CoffeeScript in mind, but of course you can use plain old JavaScript too.

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edwardog14y ago

(Disclaimer: I work for Shopify.)

Shopify would use this to write the client-side parts. We can now save on a lot of server-side rendering of pages every time a request happens; instead we just send back JSON and Batman.js knows how to change the page accordingly.

We’re already using it internally for non-core projects like our phone support system (Batman.js + Faye + Adhearsion) – it makes for a really responsive web app that’s easy to maintain.

Expect to see this in the core Shopify product very soon :)

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