Eureka Suite - The Next Generation
When last we left Eureka, it was a JavaScript console that interacted with Internet Explorer. As I thought more about it, it seemed that there could be ways to reuse the components of the original Eureka for other purposes. So, I proudly introduce the Eureka Suite, which will be an ever-growing group of JavaScript utilities.
In this release, version 0.3, the Eureka Console is still included and has been rearchitected to be faster and has an improved leak detection test that gives you blow-by-blow coverage of the leak test as it’s being performed. New in this release is Eureka XmlDoc, which parses through JavaDoc-style comments (see the included test.js file in the Program FilesEurekaSuite folder) and creates an XML file outlining your JavaScript file. You can then use whatever method you like to create nicely-formatted documentation.
I hope everyone enjoys this, as usual, I’m looking for feedback.
Disclaimer: Any viewpoints and opinions expressed in this article are those of Nicholas C. Zakas and do not, in any way, reflect those of Yahoo!, Wrox Publishing, O'Reilly Publishing, or anyone else. I speak only for myself, not for them.
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Well done… looking forward the next evolution (maybe including a Javascript minifier, or an obfuscator, or both…, and a profiler… and maybe several facilities to the console, like an object instance creator, or an object browser/editor…) just for only mention a few suggests…
Emilio on June 1st, 2006 at 10:57 am
Emilio, most of those are in my plans for the Eureka Suite. I’m turning my focus to a cruncher (or compressor or minifier) right now as well as to a unit testing framework. But no promises on when those will be ready.
Nicholas C. Zakas on June 1st, 2006 at 11:38 am