Comments on: Review: MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide

By: Defining a class @cakephpindonesia.com

Defining a class @cakephpindonesia.com — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:23:49 +0000

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By: Dwight Jack

Dwight Jack — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:40:20 +0000

Hi Jacob and thanx for commenting.
Yeah, i really enjoied your guide, really well written.
Even if jQuery is the most used framework nowadays, i still think that Mootools has some good points for developers to achieve cleaner code structure.
I’m looking forward to MooTools 1.3 which is going to polish methods and functions. Let’s hope that your book will bring more JS developers to give MooTools a try

By: Jacob Gube

Jacob Gube — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:00:12 +0000

Thanks for the awesome review Marco! I just read your post on Smashing Magazine today, on Joomla! and WordPress. I liked it, so I decided to check out your site.

Funny coincidence that your most recent post is a review of the book I wrote!

I’m glad you noticed that I placed a high emphasis on the Class construction pattern because it was one of the major things I saw about MooTools tutorials on the Web: not using Class. Class sets MooTools apart and after being in that Class/OOP mindset when developing JS scripts, it’s hard to switch it off and think in any other way. It has a higher learning curve, but once you grok it, it makes web development 10 times more efficient, easier, and makes scripts highly reusable, interoperable, and maintainable.

You’re 100% right about the book not intended for being a reference book. It’s meant to teach beginners how to use MooTools by way of examples. Covering every method, function, class (and then covering MooTools More plugins), would make for a hefty book that not many would be able to sit through and read cover to cover. That’s also why I referenced MooTools docs in the beginning.

Keep up the great work and thank you for the review of my book.