I'm trying to convert jquery into coffeescript but I'm getting syntax error
SyntaxError: unexpected REGEX
This is my code:
container = document.querySelector('#style-container');
msnry = new Masonry( container, {
// options
columnWidth: 200
itemSelector: '.item'
});
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
That's not CoffeeScript. This is CoffeeScript:
container = document.querySelector "#style-container"
msnry = new Masonry(container,
columnWidth: 200
itemSelector: ".item"
)
You can convert JavaScript to CoffeeScript using this tool.
The specific error is referring to the comment tag. // doesn't mean a comment in CoffeeScript, so it falls back to an empty regular expression. A more useful regular expression would be /[0-9]+/, however the contents are optional in CoffeeScript.
// this is a JS comment
# this is a CS comment
The error is you are using // for a comment instead of #.
In addition to that, you example still looks more like JavaScript than CoffeeScript, but that's the specific error you are getting. See also http://js2coffee.org/
CoffeeScript comments start with #, instead of //. As noted above the // is used for a blank regex. When learning CoffeeScript, I recommend http://coffeescript.org/ and the Try CoffeeScript tool, so that you can see the JavaScript that your CoffeeScript would give rise to.
