JavaScript in Adobe Apps
Thameera Senanayaka
Allion Technologies
Twitter: @thameera
Good software offer scripting features
- Google Chrome, Firefox
- Extensions/Add-ons
- Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, Vim, ...
- Plugins/Add-ins/Extensions
- Micro$oft Word
- VB macros
Adobe Apps
Scripting Adobe apps
- JavaScript
- AppleScript
- VBScript
Demo
Scripts
Photoshop DOM
Write/run/debug with ExtendScript Toolkit
Has JSX extension
Can be opened directly from Photoshop, etc
Extensions
HTML5
CSS3
JavaScript
Lessons Learnt
- Build process
- C++ for otherwise slow tasks
- eg: image processing
- AngularJS
- Q promises
