Application Planner - Javascript

Daz wrote:
> I having taken on a large project (set by myself), and I can never
> seem to plan out my functions, classes, variables etc... in a format
> that's easy to read, and follow.

It is possible that you have no classes at all because you develop only
client-side scripts. However, for the sake of modeling, the prototype
chain mechanism used there can be simplified to a class-like model.

> Would anyone know of some kind of application which will allow me to
> "prototype" my application first? I am sure such a thing exists, I
> just don't know what I am looking for. I think I am after something
> along the lines of Microsoft Visio, but a bit simpler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language


PointedEars

On Sep 4, 1:22 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...@web.de>
wrote:
> Daz wrote:
> > I having taken on a large project (set by myself), and I can never
> > seem to plan out my functions, classes, variables etc... in a format
> > that's easy to read, and follow.
>
> It is possible that you have no classes at all because you develop only
> client-side scripts. However, for the sake of modeling, the prototype
> chain mechanism used there can be simplified to a class-like model.
>
> > Would anyone know of some kind of application which will allow me to
> > "prototype" my application first? I am sure such a thing exists, I
> > just don't know what I am looking for. I think I am after something
> > along the lines of Microsoft Visio, but a bit simpler.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language
>
> PointedEars

The UML model. Excellent. That's what I was after. Thanks.

On Sep 4, 2:09 am, Daz <cutenfu...> wrote:
> On Sep 4, 1:22 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...@web.de>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Daz wrote:
> > > I having taken on a large project (set by myself), and I can never
> > > seem to plan out my functions, classes, variables etc... in a format
> > > that's easy to read, and follow.
>
> > It is possible that you have no classes at all because you develop only
> > client-side scripts. However, for the sake of modeling, the prototype
> > chain mechanism used there can be simplified to a class-like model.
>
> > > Would anyone know of some kind of application which will allow me to
> > > "prototype" my application first? I am sure such a thing exists, I
> > > just don't know what I am looking for. I think I am after something
> > > along the lines of Microsoft Visio, but a bit simpler.
>
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language
>
> > PointedEars
>
> The UML model. Excellent. That's what I was after. Thanks.


For anyone else with the same question, I found this page full of
tools to get the job done.

http://www.jeckle.de/umltools.htm

It's in German, but it's quite easy to understand.

On Sep 3, 6:09 pm, Daz <cutenfu...> wrote:
> On Sep 4, 1:22 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...@web.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Daz wrote:
> > > I having taken on a large project (set by myself), and I can never
> > > seem to plan out my functions, classes, variables etc... in a format
> > > that's easy to read, and follow.
>
> > It is possible that you have no classes at all because you develop only
> > client-side scripts. However, for the sake of modeling, the prototype
> > chain mechanism used there can be simplified to a class-like model.
>
> > > Would anyone know of some kind of application which will allow me to
> > > "prototype" my application first? I am sure such a thing exists, I
> > > just don't know what I am looking for. I think I am after something
> > > along the lines of Microsoft Visio, but a bit simpler.
>
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language
>
> > PointedEars
>
> The UML model. Excellent. That's what I was after. Thanks.

JavaScript can (relatively) easily use the "class inheritance" design
pattern but doesn't have it built-in like Java/C++/Smalltalk/Ruby do.
As far as I know, UML is very class-oriented so if you adhere to UML
it may limit the ways you use JavaScript compared with all the things
JavaScript can do better than it does class inheritance.

I wish I could suggest an alternative to you but I don't know of one.

Peter