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Thanks for this link. I will be reading it for sure. I also stumbled on the annotated source of Underscore.js a few days ago (http://underscorejs.org/docs/under

Thanks for this link. I will be reading it for sure. I also stumbled on the annotated source of Underscore.js a few days ago (http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html). Would love any more stuff like this that anyone knows of.

anc84 11y ago
Why oh why are those not comments within the source file? It would help me so much to have comments like those in software... Generally I think that a linear step-by-step description is often not the best way though, often you would have to explain concepts or the bigger picture first.
- jashkenas 11y ago
  You're in luck. Those comments certainly are within the source file: http://underscorejs.org/underscore.js http://underscorejs.org/underscore.js
  - anc84 11y ago
    That's fantastic! I guess the website was auto-generated then, how nice.
jashkenas 11y ago
If you liked that, here are some links to sister projects: Docco Source: http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/ http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/ Backbone Source: http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html CoffeeScript Source: http://coffeescript.org/documentation/docs/grammar.html http://coffeescript.org/documentation/docs/grammar.html
gordonzhu 11y ago
The Annotated Version of Eloquent JS (this was mentioned in the article) is similar except the annotations are for a book rather than a library. https://watchandcode.com/courses/eloquent-javascript-the-annotated-version https://watchandcode.com/courses/eloquent-javascript-the-ann...