jQuery: A comprehensive beginner’s guide to jQuery , 2nd Edition

jQuery makes many tasks easier. Its simplistic, chainable, and comprehensive API has the capability to completely change the way you write JavaScript. With the goals
of doing more with less code, jQuery really shines in the following areas:

• jQuery makes iterating and traversing the DOM much easier via its various built-in methods.
• jQuery makes selecting items from the DOM easier via its sophisticated, built-in, and ubiquitous capability to use selectors, just like you would use in CSS.
• jQuery makes it easy to add your own custom methods via its simple-to-understand plug-in architecture.
• jQuery helps reduce redundancy in navigation and UI functionality, like tabs, CSS, andmarkup-based pop-up dialogs, animations, and transitions, and lots of other things.

What’s Inside

• Updated for jQuery 3
• DOM manipulation and event handling
• Animations and effects
• Advanced topics including Unit Testing and Promises
• Practical examples and labs