Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja

In Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, JavaScript expert John Resig reveals the inside know-how of the elite JavaScript programmers. Written to be accessible to JavaScript developers with intermediate-level skills.

This book takes readers on a journey towards mastering modern JavaScript development in three phases: design, construction, and maintenance. It first establishes a base of strong, advanced JavaScript knowledge. The book then teaches readers how to construct a JavaScript library. It examines all the numerous tasks JavaScript libraries have to tackle and provides practical solutions and development strategies. It then presents the various maintenance techniques required to keep their code running well into the future.

With Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja readers will gain the knowledge and Ninja-like skills to build their own JavaScript libraries, or to understand how to use any modern JavaScript library available.

What’s inside:

1. Introduction
2. Testing and debugging
3. Functions
4. Closures
5. Function prototypes
6. Timers
7. Regular expressions
8. With statements
9. Code evaluation
10. Strategies for cross-browser code
11. CSS Selector Engine
12. DOM modification
13. Attributes and CSS
14. Events
15. Ajax
16. Animation
17. Performance