It would be nice to have the option of generating js rather then coffee

[theinterned]

This is a great gem; we are not using coffee script though so the generators don't quite fit our needs. Would you be into providing a switch to generate vanilla js rather than coffee?

It seems like the format could be specified as a command line argument and/or configuration setting?

[byee01]

I think this is an awesome idea for those that can't use coffeescript. I'd love to use backbone-rails but the necessity of coffeescript is putting me off.

[scottillogical]

+1 I'm new to backbone and coffeescript so I'd like to start out with just javascript and move to coffeescript later so this would be useful.

[dukedorje]

If you use javascript -- and especially if you know Ruby -- you owe it to yourself to look at Coffeescript.

[sgreenfield]

@dukejones Many of us have looked closely at Coffeescript and still prefer JS. I view Coffeescript as a pointless abstraction with no real added benefit. There is a lot of debate around Coffescript being included by default with rails 3.1, and I am not trying to reignite that debate, but many people share my opinion, and it would be nice to have the option to generate vanilla JS with this great gem.

[frank06]

I second @sgreenfield; it would be great to have the option to generate vanilla Javascript

[codebrew]

I'm all for this with having coffeescript as the default and an option to generate js instead. Anyone want to work on a pull request?

[jgv]

I have a pure js fork that I've been using although it's not battle tested. I could create a fork that defaults to coffeescript but allows for a js option unless someone has already tackled this.

[theinterned]

Closing this 10 year old issue!