The cure for the disease of div-itis

gistfile1.coffee

# Heads up to front-end developers!
# $.append isn’t the only DOM insertion function!
# It requires containers to append elements into.
# It’s the primary source of excessive div-itis.
# Abandon the practice of e.g.
# @$(‘div.itself div.container div.sub-container div.collection div.comments’).append($comments)
# And switch to the more semantic:
@place = @$("header").after
@place($body)
# Wrap with $.proxy when sending out of context, e.g.
super
  place: $.proxy(@$header.after, @$header)
# So that views like collections can
place(child.$el) for child in @childs
# In flat DOM structures, when they should be kept flat
# So next time you create a composite view ;)
@$("div.message").after(@comments.$el)
# Which sadly reads the other way around; after message comes comments