Live Development: Research for live JavaScript

This page documents research results for building out live JavaScript development. We're starting with work using the APIs built into Chrome.

Issues with Feature Behavior

• Using the TodoMVC jquery example
  • The footer blinks when the ScriptAgent is turned on (even when no edits have been made to the script). Even more noticeable with the Backbone example
  • The Live Development icon looks like it's turned off
• Using a canvas demo
  • The framerate does not appear to be affected by having the ScriptAgent loaded (I had a theory about the blinking in TodoMVC. Turned out to be false)
  • not surprisingly, making a change to initPalette live has no effect
  • changing smooth, on the other hand, works fine
  • changing a script in the HTML page has no effect
  • adding code outside of a function block in the script file has no effect