Hi,
I would like to know how much time (in percent) does JavaScript development takes at your work. I work with complex rich-internet applications and i spend most of my time in JavaScript development.
And you: how much time do you you spend in JavaScript development and what do you do to reduce it ?
regards,
I don't spend a lot of time at all; I use jQuery to do almost all the work, and then I keep things simple such that I avoid do much work elsewhere. So I'll return the entire HTML I wish to render, for ajax calls, instead of building it up client side, and other such things.
I also do a bunch of 'rich' things, but keep it 'workable'. My 'util.js' is at about 800 lines. Possibly extravagent, but it does a bunch of things. I don't spend a significant amount of time on it anymore.
IE8's JavaScript debugger has been extremely helpful for me.
Edit: It's actually the only reason I ever run IE8!
I spend quite a bit of time in Javascript (and CSS) development, because I believe in not having any postbacks (or fake postbacks with ASP .Net AJAX) at all, but in rich client side experiences that don't use too much bandwidth. Therefore, I tend to write most of the server interaction by hand instead of using ASP .Net features.
This means a lot of Javascript, but a vastly superior user experience.
To reduce development time, use jQuery. I repeat, use jQuery.
jQuery has saved me and many other people countless hours of development time. If you need to do something that jQuery can't do out of the box, search for an applicable plugin. If you aren't using jQuery already, you will be endlessly grateful. jQuery hides all of the differences in the HTML DOM between browsers, makes animations infinitely easier to implement, and does lots of other useful things too.
Also, use FireBug; it makes layouts much easier to debug and play with, and makes Javascript much easier to test.
Next to none. IMHO, javascript is best kept for client-side form validation (and even then, only as a helper to strict server-side form validation). Occasionally I use it, but it's best avoided, I think. Certainly, I wouldn't ever do much in it that didn't use a library like jquery.
I did research on the internet first search for a component that i need for my website. if there is none or conflicted with my javascript (i am using jquery) so I will create it by my own. It shouldn't take very long to do that.
thanks to jquery and another javascript library (also firebug) ..they help a lot.
Time to spend for javascript development is about 10-15% of development time.