Mastering jQuery

Elevate your development skills by leveraging every available ounce of jQuery

About This Book

• Create and decouple custom event types to efficiently use them and suit your users’ needs
• Incorporate custom, optimized versions of the jQuery library into your pages to maximize the efficiency of your website
• Get the most out of jQuery by gaining exposure to real-world examples with tricks and tips to enhance your skills

Who This Book Is For

If you are a developer who is already familiar with using jQuery and wants to push your skill set further, then this book is for you. The book assumes an intermediate knowledge level of jQuery, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.

In Detail

Mastering jQuery has been written not only to help maximize your skills with core functionality in the library, but also to explore some of the more intriguing ways of using the library to achieve real-world solutions that could feature on any website or online environment.

You’ll start with a look at some of the more advanced ways to incorporate the library into your pages, followed by working with forms and advanced form validation using regular expressions. Next you’ll move on to animating in jQuery, advanced event handling, and using jQuery effects.

Finally, you will develop practical examples of using jQuery with external functionality such as node-webkit, before finishing with a session on optimizing your version of the library for maximum efficiency and exploring best practices for using QUnit.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Installing Jquery
Chapter 2: Customizing Jquery
Chapter 3: Organizing Your Code
Chapter 4: Working With Forms
Chapter 5: Integrating Ajax
Chapter 6: Animating In Jquery
Chapter 7: Advanced Event Handling
Chapter 8: Using Jquery Effects
Chapter 9: Using The Web Performance Apis
Chapter 10: Manipulating Images
Chapter 11: Authoring Advanced Plugins
Chapter 12: Using Jquery With The Node-Webkit Project
Chapter 13: Enhancing Performance In Jquery
Chapter 14: Testing Jquery