
9/19/2011
What this post added
This post introduces Batman.js, Shopify's open-source CoffeeScript framework for building single-page applications. It details the framework's core features, including a runtime layer for observing data changes and computed properties using deep keypaths, a view system that leverages direct data binding to HTML elements for efficient updates, and a model layer for data persistence. The post highlights the framework's advantages over existing solutions by focusing on developer experience, boilerplate reduction, and performance through surgical DOM manipulation.