O'Reilly.Learning from jQuery.Building on Core Skills.2013

Title: Learning from jQuery 

By: Callum Macrae 

Publisher: O'Reilly Media 

Formats: Print , Ebook , Safari Books Online 

Print:  February 2013 

Ebook:  January 2013 

Pages:  116 

Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-3519-9 | ISBN 10:1-4493-3519-5

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-3514-4 | ISBN 10:1-4493-3514-4

Description

If you’re comfortable with jQuery but a bit shaky with JavaScript, this concise guide will help you expand your knowledge of the language—especially the code that jQuery covers up for you. Many jQuery devotees write as little code as possible, but with some JavaScript under your belt, you can prevent errors, reduce overhead, and make your application code more efficient.

This book explores event handling, prototypes, and working with the DOM and AJAX through examples and lots of code. You’ll learn common conventions and patterns in JavaScript and—if you’ve never coded with JavaScript before—a tutorial will take you through the basics.

• Enhance your jQuery code by using object constructors and prototypes
• Reduce overhead and gain more control by handling events with JavaScript
• Work with the DOM much faster with JavaScript than you can with jQuery
• Send a few AJAX requests without having to load the entire jQuery library
• Understand the importance of JavaScript code standards, comments, code reuse, and anti-patterns
• Enlist JavaScript resources, such as a good IDE, a syntax checker, and version control

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 : Event Handling 

Listening for Events

Event Propagation

Triggering Events

Removing Event Handlers

Adding a "Once Only" Event Listener

Summary

Chapter 2 : Constructors and Prototypes 

Constructors

Prototypes

Summary

Chapter 3 : DOM Traversal and Manipulation 

Selecting an Element

Selecting Children

Selecting the Next Element

Creating an Element

Modifying an Existing Element

Cycling Through Elements

Moving and Copying Elements

Summary

Chapter 4 : AJAX 

Sending an AJAX Request

Debugging

Sending POST Requests in JavaScript

Writing a Wrapper Function

A Simple Application of AJAX

Designing a Site with AJAX

Summary

Chapter 5 : JavaScript Conventions 

Writing JavaScript

Literals Notation

Optimizations

Functions

Code Reuse

Common Antipatterns

Common Design Patterns

Summary

Appendix : JavaScript Basics 

Hello World!

Comments

Variables

Numbers

Functions

Objects

Finding the Type of a Variable

Arrays

Looping

Conditional Statements

Delays

Regular Expressions

Error Handling

Summary

Appendix : JavaScript Resources 

A Good IDE

GitHub

JSHint

JSPerf

Mozilla Developer Network

Pastebins

Version Control Software

Colophon

Download

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