cycligent.js

Version 1.0.0

Copyright 2008-2015 Improvement Interactive All Rights Reserved Worldwide

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License above in the LICENSE file or at:

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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Description

• Asynchronous Script Loading - WITHOUT DEPENDENCY DECLARATION
• Classic Object Model - classes, inheritance and interfaces
• Function Argument Augmentation
• Advanced Testing Support
• Works with other JavaScript frameworks, including Angular.js (including lazy loading)

Details

• Asynchronous loading of scripts via import
  • Dependencies do not need to be declared
  • Dependencies are automatically determined during startup for Cycligent classes and modules.
• A classic object model
  • inheritance
  • interfaces
  • private methods (no syntactical sugar required)
• Function argument augmentation and validation.
  • Mapped or ordered arguments to the same function
  • Default values for optional arguments
  • Validation of supplied arguments (required, quantity and type)
  • Handling of advance types (Arrays and HTML elements)
  • Reuse of argument specifications, especially as it relates to interfaces.
• Advanced testing support
  • Unit
  • End-to-end
• Works with other JavaScript frameworks, including Angular.js.
• Supports IE9+, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
• No external dependencies.

Changes from the previous version

• cycligent.url got rid of '/' as having meaning within dotted names, and now takes the presence of a slash to mean that we're working with a URL.
• kernel.js has been combined with cycligent.js