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ethan

I made Textcast, Ethan, RubCam

#52134@gliechtensteinjasonette.com

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Joined on August 24th, 2014

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@llabball I actually wanted to support pure inline JS, but this turned out to be more cumbersome than I thought. I do plan on supporting this in the future (Hopefully someone may just send a pull request if they want) but decided not to go overboard trying to support this because we have another option which using the URL (instead of inlining JS code). There are a couple of benefits to this: 1. This is much cleaner since you don't mix JS with JavaScript code (Inlining may be convenient for small snippets of code but for any serious piece of code it's very convoluted because JSON doesn't support multiline, so you end up packing the entire JS code in a single line, and also have to make sure you have semicolons everywhere so it doesn't break". 2. This is much more unit-test friendly since you can write a JS and do all unit test on that JS file, and then script src it in an HTML file, which you can reference using the URL option. Basically the rule is if it works in a browser, it works as an agent. So TLDR, if you want unit testable, modular code, I suggest you: 1. Write JS code and do all the unit testing on the JS file 2. Embed it into an HTML file (script src) 3. Plug in the HTML file into Jasonette with the URL option. This is in fact how I've been developing my own apps using agents and it's been great. Hope this helps.

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@revhuff great to hear Josh! Hope agents makes it even easier and let you do even more :)

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3yr ago

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@frantzlight thanks! feel free to share if you build something cool, i'll share everything on the @jasonclient feed and also on the newsletter

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