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Basic CoffeeScript syntax

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Basic CoffeeScript syntax

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In this video, I'm going to talk about some of CoffeeScript's syntax. But before I do that, I need to show you how I have my examples set up so you can follow along with me. So in my desktop I have a CoffeeScript folder that I created in the last chapter. And if you've been following along, you know that you need to make sure that you pull up a terminal, and issued the gulp command on this folder. So if you haven't already, make sure your terminal is up, and that you change directory to this folder. Once you do that you can execute the gulp command, and the gulp command will take care of processing any CoffeeScript into its equivalent JavaScript files. So once you've launched the gulp command, you can minimize your terminal. Now I'm going to switch over to this folder and, the two files that I'm going to need are in the Components folder. I need to open up the CoffeeScript file, which is script.coffee. And then in the scripts folder, I need to open up the script.js document. This is…

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