E-book : Professional jQuery for free

E-book : Professional jQuery for free

CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED 

What jQuery Is Good At 3

Hardware and Browser Requirements 4

Obtaining jQuery and jQuery UI 4

“Hello World” Example 5

JavaScript Conventions Used in This Book 6

Development Tools 9

Debugging JavaScript and jQuery 15

Using the FireQuery Plugin 16

Summary 17

CHAPTER 2: JAVASCRIPT PRIMER 

Understanding Numbers 20

Working with Strings 21

Understanding Booleans 21

Comparison Types 22

A Brief Note About Dates 23

Reviewing Miscellaneous Types 23

Revisiting Variables 24

Understanding Objects 25

Using Functions 29

Understanding Execution Context 32

Working with Scope and Closures 32

Understanding Access Levels 34

Applying Modules 34

Using JavaScript Arrays 35

Augmenting Types 37

Applying JS Best Practices 38

Putting It All Together 38

Summary 39

Note 39

CHAPTER 3: THE JQUERY CORE 

Understanding the Structure of a jQuery Script 41

Utility Functions 43

Using JavaScript Unobtrusively 52

The jQuery Framework Structure 58

Understanding the DOM and Events 60

Using jQuery with Other JavaScript Libraries 60

Summary 61

Notes 62

CHAPTER 4: DOM ELEMENT SELECTION AND MANIPULATION 

The Power of jQuery Selectors 64

Selecting Elements 64

Selecting by CSS Styles 66

Selecting by Attributes 68

Selecting by Position 72

Using Filter Selectors 72

Custom User Selectors 81

Doing DOM Traversal 82

Accessing and Modifying Elements,

Attributes, and Content 88

Working with Content 88

Generating HTML 92

Summary 93

CHAPTER 5: EVENT HANDLING 

Understanding the Browser Event Model 96

Event Capturing and Bubbling 99

Understanding How jQuery Handles Events 101

Applying jQuery Event Handlers 103

Working with Events 108

jQuery’s New Event API 114

Summary 116

Notes 117

CHAPTER 6: HTML FORMS, DATA, AND AJAX 

jQuery Data Appreciation 119

Using Form Validations 121

Feature Detection with Modernizr

Working with HTML Form Elements 124

Revisiting Ajax Basics 127

Applying Ajax with jQuery 129

Summary 138

Notes 138

CHAPTER 7: ANIMATIONS AND EFFECTS 

Animating Elements 141

Animating CSS Properties 143

Resizing Elements 146

Designing Custom Animations 146

Animations with HTML5 Canvas 150

Summary 152

Notes 152

PART II: APPLIED JQUERY

CHAPTER 8: JQUERY UI PART I—MAKING THINGS

LOOK SLICK 155

Theming and Styling 155

Using ThemeRoller 156

Using jQuery UI Widgets 157

Button 158

Tabs 159

Accordion 163

Autocomplete 164

Datepicker 167

Dialog 173

Progressbar 175

Slider 176

Summary 178

Notes 178

CHAPTER 9: JQUERY UI PART II—MOUSE INTERACTIONS 

Dragging and Dropping 179

Sorting 184

Resizing Elements 188

Making Elements Selectable 192

Summary

CHAPTER 10: WRITING EFFECTIVE JQUERY CODE 

Optimization Techniques 195

Minimize DOM Updates 196

More Eff ective Looping 198

Caching Objects 200

Use Effi cient Selectors 200

Consider Skipping jQuery Methods Entirely 204

DRY 205

Use JavaScript Patterns 206

Creating an Application Namespace with a Singleton 207

The Module Pattern 210

The Garber-Irish Implementation 213

Using $.data() 216

The Basics of the .data() API 216

Fully Leveraging the Data API 217

Summary 219

CHAPTER 11: JQUERY TEMPLATES 

Taming a Tangle of Strings 221

Separation of Content and Behavior 223

Code Reuse 223

Aesthetics and Clarity 223

The Past, Present, and Future of jQuery Templates 223

Creating Templates 224

Applying Templates with $.tmpl() 226

Applying Templates Using Remote Data 228

Template Tags 230

Summary 240

CHAPTER 12: WRITING JQUERY PLUGINS 

The Plugin Basics 241

Applying jQuery Plugin Naming Conventions 242

How to Extend jQuery 242

General Plugin Guidelines 244

Applying Plugin Best Practices 249

Utilize and Learn from Existing Plugin Patterns 256

A Closer Look at the Widget Factory 258

An Example Plugin Implementation 259

Summary

CHAPTER 13: ADVANCED ASYNCHRONOUS PROGRAMMING WITH

JQUERY DEFERRED 

Building Blocks 263

Promises 264

The Promises/A Proposal 264

The jQuery Deferred Object 265

Summary 279

CHAPTER 14: UNIT TESTING WITH QUNIT 

An Introduction to Unit Testing 281

What Is Unit Testing? 282

Benefi ts of Unit Testing 282

Test-Driven Development 283

Understanding What Makes a Good Unit Test 283

Getting Started with QUnit 284

The QUnit Hello World Using equal 284

A Failing QUnit Test 286

Testing for Truthiness with ok 287

Setting Expectations 287

Additional Assertions 288

Testing DOM Elements 289

Using noglobals and notrycatch 290

Organizing Tests into Modules 292

Asynchronous Testing 294

Using asyncTest 295

Mocking Ajax Requests 296

Putting it All Together in a Test Suite

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