jQuery Design Patterns

Thodoris Greasidis‏

فروری 2016 · Packt Publishing Ltd

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Learn the best practices on writing efficient jQuery applications to maximize performance in large-scale deploymentsAbout This BookLearn about the observer pattern and the deferred observer pattern, two of the most popular design patterns that handle custom eventsAdvance your jQuery skills by learning about patterns such as divide and conquer, facade, and builder and factory to handle complex resultsThis step-by-step guide to applying micro-patterns and optimizing jQuery applications will help you get the best performance in a production environmentWho This Book Is For

This book is for existing jQuery Developers or new developers who want to get an understanding of the “correct way” to build jQuery applications, using best practices and industry standard patterns.

What You Will LearnRespond to user actionsAchieve greater flexibility and code decouplingHave a central point for emitting and receiving application level eventsStructure the application into small independent modulesAbstract complex APIsIsolate the procedure of generating complex parts of the applicationEfficiently orchestrate asynchronous procedures using jQuery Deferred and PromisesUtilize the most widely-used client-side templating libraries for more complex use casesIn Detail

jQuery is a feature-rich JavaScript library that makes HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a variety of browsers. With a combination of versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write JavaScript.

jQuery solves the problems of DOM manipulation, event detection, AJAX calls, element selection and document queries, element attribute and data management, as well as object management utilities. This book addresses these problems and shows you how to make the best of jQuery through the various design patterns available.

The book starts off with a refresher to jQuery and will then take you through the different design patterns such as facade, observer, publisher/subscriber, and so on. We will also go into client-side templating techniques and libraries, as well as some plugin development patterns. Finally, we will look into some best practices that you can use to make the best of jQuery.

Style and approach

The example-oriented guide covers the best and most widely used patterns to help you improve your development with jQuery.

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Thodoris Greasidis is a senior web engineer from Greece. He graduated with honors from the University of Thessaly, holds a polytechnic diploma in computer, networking, and communications engineering, and a master's degree in computer science. He is a full-stack developer, responsible for implementing large-scale web applications with intuitive interfaces and high-availability web services. Thodoris is part of the Angular-UI team and has made many open source contributions, with a special interest in Mozilla projects. He is also an active member of the Athens AngularJS Meetup and a technical reviewer of Mastering jQuery UI, Packt Publishing. He is a JavaScript enthusiast and loves bitwise operations. His interests also include NodeJS, Python, project scaffolding, automation, and artificial intelligence, especially multi-agent systems.