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The last third-party Javascript snippet you'll ever need

18 points by kuhn 15y ago

kuhn 15y ago
Just a little something I've been working on over the holidays.
- wkasel 15y ago
  Seems great. So you're suggesting you will keep a library of all the major libraries, and load them async for the user? How do you handle dependencies, such as jquery, and jquery plugins?
- enomar 15y ago
  Any other info? I'm interested, but the "Why We Think Uber JS Rocks" section isn't quite enough to convince me to pay $10 to peek behind the curtain.
wedtm 15y ago
Uh.... All I see is some web 2.0 layout, some cryptic mumbo jumbo about something called uberjs, and a plea for $10 or I can sit in line and wait for something I'm not even fully sure what it is. Perhaps you should make me love your product, before trying to get me to give you my hard earned money.
Pewpewarrows 15y ago
I would probably explain what on Earth my product is before I go about asking developers for $10 to get early access to it...
ntkachov 15y ago
If you have so many Javascript snippets that you need another javascript snippet to organize them you may want to think about how your developing your application and what your application means to the user. Heavy Javascript on the client side either means your writing a full featured web app or the entire website is clientside in javascript. The former probably has performance penalties that make this a bad idea. The later, IMHO, is just bad. The only useful thing I can think of with this is the fact that it can serve up a custom load of libraries all bundled and gziped in one file. But to that extent I can run a small script on my computer that will do that and then upload it to my server rather than having to cross domain half of my Javascript.
driverdan 15y ago
I had the same idea a while back but never executed. Pricing is going to be tricky. You have to convince your users that your service is really worth it. Copying and pasting code into their site costs nothing and takes very little time. Once it's there it rarely changes. Most users don't understand the performance impact of 3rd party scripts.
brettwelch 15y ago
Interesting - very curious as to how it works though, maybe something you could add on the page. Since your audience is developers I'm sure others would appreciate that info also.
- antonlitvinenko 15y ago
  yup, some sort of example how it would work for me as a developer would be awesome! E.g. I have uservoice, optimizely, ganalytics, kissinsights and totango snippets in my app right now - what UberJS would do for me? Would my biz. partner be able to add new snippets/delete old ones on his own (without interrupting my flow ;)?
  - kuhn 15y ago
    Thanks! I've updated some of the copy on the site. Hopefully it's clearer now. Love the idea of getting your biz guy to update things for you. Yes, it would definitely work for that scenario.
TomGullen 15y ago
How reliable will uberjs.com be as a CDN? Also it seems to be jumping the gun a bit in regards to asking people to pay for it.
pedalpete 15y ago
I've recently started using an asset manager for my latest app, and I believe they are becoming more common (rails 3.1.3 includes asset management). Why would I use a package manager as a service when I can essentially do it for nothing? Maybe I'm just not understanding your service. A few years ago, this might have been something I might be interested in (though I doubt I'd pay for it), I think you may have missed the market opportunity.
- kuhn 15y ago
  I didn't know about rails asset management (I'm more of a django guy), thanks I'll look into it. I really like your description of it as a package manager. In those terms I'm starting to think more like an app store for your web site. My thinking was more around a company setting where you've got change control processes in place and deployments perhaps aren't as easy to orchestrate/are too much effort. Then there's my personal itch which is that for every product I build I seem to be doing the same things over and over again with Olark, Woopra, Google Analytics etc.
kuhn 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback everyone-much appreciated. Working on the wording; seems like I did a poor job of explaining what it does and how it works.
ZachS 15y ago
A web2.0 web based GUI for uglify-js and closure compiler. Just what I've always wanted.

18 points by kuhn 15y ago

kuhn 15y ago

Just a little something I've been working on over the holidays.

wkasel 15y ago
Seems great. So you're suggesting you will keep a library of all the major libraries, and load them async for the user? How do you handle dependencies, such as jquery, and jquery plugins?
enomar 15y ago
Any other info? I'm interested, but the "Why We Think Uber JS Rocks" section isn't quite enough to convince me to pay $10 to peek behind the curtain.

wedtm 15y ago

Uh.... All I see is some web 2.0 layout, some cryptic mumbo jumbo about something called uberjs, and a plea for $10 or I can sit in line and wait for something I'm not even fully sure what it is. Perhaps you should make me love your product, before trying to get me to give you my hard earned money.

Pewpewarrows 15y ago

I would probably explain what on Earth my product is before I go about asking developers for $10 to get early access to it...

ntkachov 15y ago

If you have so many Javascript snippets that you need another javascript snippet to organize them you may want to think about how your developing your application and what your application means to the user. Heavy Javascript on the client side either means your writing a full featured web app or the entire website is clientside in javascript. The former probably has performance penalties that make this a bad idea. The later, IMHO, is just bad. The only useful thing I can think of with this is the fact that it can serve up a custom load of libraries all bundled and gziped in one file. But to that extent I can run a small script on my computer that will do that and then upload it to my server rather than having to cross domain half of my Javascript.

driverdan 15y ago

I had the same idea a while back but never executed. Pricing is going to be tricky. You have to convince your users that your service is really worth it. Copying and pasting code into their site costs nothing and takes very little time. Once it's there it rarely changes. Most users don't understand the performance impact of 3rd party scripts.

brettwelch 15y ago

Interesting - very curious as to how it works though, maybe something you could add on the page. Since your audience is developers I'm sure others would appreciate that info also.

antonlitvinenko 15y ago
yup, some sort of example how it would work for me as a developer would be awesome! E.g. I have uservoice, optimizely, ganalytics, kissinsights and totango snippets in my app right now - what UberJS would do for me? Would my biz. partner be able to add new snippets/delete old ones on his own (without interrupting my flow ;)?
- kuhn 15y ago
  Thanks! I've updated some of the copy on the site. Hopefully it's clearer now. Love the idea of getting your biz guy to update things for you. Yes, it would definitely work for that scenario.

TomGullen 15y ago

How reliable will uberjs.com be as a CDN? Also it seems to be jumping the gun a bit in regards to asking people to pay for it.

pedalpete 15y ago

I've recently started using an asset manager for my latest app, and I believe they are becoming more common (rails 3.1.3 includes asset management). Why would I use a package manager as a service when I can essentially do it for nothing? Maybe I'm just not understanding your service. A few years ago, this might have been something I might be interested in (though I doubt I'd pay for it), I think you may have missed the market opportunity.

kuhn 15y ago
I didn't know about rails asset management (I'm more of a django guy), thanks I'll look into it. I really like your description of it as a package manager. In those terms I'm starting to think more like an app store for your web site. My thinking was more around a company setting where you've got change control processes in place and deployments perhaps aren't as easy to orchestrate/are too much effort. Then there's my personal itch which is that for every product I build I seem to be doing the same things over and over again with Olark, Woopra, Google Analytics etc.

kuhn 15y ago

Thanks for the feedback everyone-much appreciated. Working on the wording; seems like I did a poor job of explaining what it does and how it works.

ZachS 15y ago

A web2.0 web based GUI for uglify-js and closure compiler. Just what I've always wanted.