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A little harsh, don't you think? The link is to a blog post - not a landing page - and it seems to me it can contain whatever the author wanted it to. The post

A little harsh, don't you think? The link is to a blog post - not a landing page - and it seems to me it can contain whatever the author wanted it to. The post wasn't submitted here by anyone from &yet, but by Jeremy Ashkenas (the creator of Backbone which is partly the basis for ampersand). The actual landing page is http://ampersandjs.com http://ampersandjs.com (linked in the first sentence of the blog post) and has plenty of technical content like the user manual/guides you wanted (http://ampersandjs.com/learn http://ampersandjs.com/learn) and api docs (http://ampersandjs.com/docs http://ampersandjs.com/docs).

laureny 12y ago
Yes, you're right, I apologize for being a bit harsh.
mkishi 12y ago
But the landing page doesn't say much as well. The first section is "Why?," and the only "what" is "Ampersand.js is a well-defined approach to combining (get it?) a series of intentionally tiny modules." I don't know what that means, and the reasons for it are "simplicity of tiny modules and npm dependency," which are not exactly convincing by itself, as I can do that just fine with plain Browserify. Then, going to the "Learn" page I get my hands busy.. with something I know nothing about. This is heavily marketed towards Backbone users, I'm guessing.
- thenduks 12y ago
  Yea that's fair enough. This is an initial release so I'm sure they are reading these comments and working to improve their site/docs/etc. You're right that it's basically for Backbone users: > We <3 Backbone.js at &yet. It’s brilliantly simple and solves many common problems in developing clientside applications. > But we missed the focused simplicity of tiny modules in node-land. Read as: "This is like Backbone.js (almost a forked Backbone.js) but better." (better from some perspective, at least)

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A little harsh, don't you think? The link is to a blog post - not a landing page - and it seems to me it can contain whatever the author wanted it to. The post

by thenduks 12y ago

laureny 12y ago
Yes, you're right, I apologize for being a bit harsh.
mkishi 12y ago
But the landing page doesn't say much as well. The first section is "Why?," and the only "what" is "Ampersand.js is a well-defined approach to combining (get it?) a series of intentionally tiny modules." I don't know what that means, and the reasons for it are "simplicity of tiny modules and npm dependency," which are not exactly convincing by itself, as I can do that just fine with plain Browserify. Then, going to the "Learn" page I get my hands busy.. with something I know nothing about. This is heavily marketed towards Backbone users, I'm guessing.
- thenduks 12y ago
  Yea that's fair enough. This is an initial release so I'm sure they are reading these comments and working to improve their site/docs/etc. You're right that it's basically for Backbone users: > We <3 Backbone.js at &yet. It’s brilliantly simple and solves many common problems in developing clientside applications. > But we missed the focused simplicity of tiny modules in node-land. Read as: "This is like Backbone.js (almost a forked Backbone.js) but better." (better from some perspective, at least)