CoffeeScript testing and deployment on PHP / LAMP stack

Question

I'm interested in dabbling in CoffeeScript, but I'd rather not have to recompile down to Javascript by hand every time I want to test. Is there an easy way dynamically convert CoffeeScript to vanilla Javascript while working on a LAMP stack, either on the server side or the client side?

Answer 1

Server side

Check out kohana-coffeescript, which makes it easy to serve CoffeeScript from PHP's Kohana framework.

Client side

See Is there a way to send CoffeeScript to the client's browser and have it compiled to JavaScript *there*? Fantastic for testing.