jQuery in Action - Softcover

Bibeault, Bear; Katz, Yehuda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933988355 ISBN 13: 9781933988351

Publisher: Manning Publications, 2008

Synopsis

A good web development framework anticipates what developers need to do and

makes those tasks easier and more efficient; jQuery practically reads your mind.

Developers of every stripe—hobbyists and professionals alike—fall in love with

jQuery the minute they’ve reduced 20 lines of clunky JavaScript into three lines

of elegant, readable code. This new, concise JavaScript library radically simplifies

how developers traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations,

and add Ajax interactions to web pages.

jQuery in Action

, like jQuery itself, is a concise tool designed to make web

developers both more efficient and effective. In a short 300 pages, this book

introduces the jQuery programming model and guides readers through the

major features and techniques needed to be productive immediately. The book

anchors each new concept in the tasks developers tackle in day-to-day web development

and offers unique lab pages where readers can immediately put their

jQuery knowledge to work.

jQuery in Action offers a rich investigation of the up-and-coming jQuery library

for client-side JavaScript. This book covers all major features and capabilities in

a manner focused on getting the reader up and running with jQuery from the

very first sections. Web developers reading this book will gain a deep understanding

of how to use jQuery to simplify their pages and lives, as well as learn

the philosophy behind writing jQuery-enhanced pages.

About this title

About the Author

Bear Bibeault

has been working in the area of web applications since the mid-

90s, getting started with beta versions of JSP and Servlets. He is a senior moderator

at the popular JavaRanch site, and has contributed articles to that site’s

JavaRanch Journal. He also co-authored two other Manning books: Ajax in

Practice and Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Bear works and resides in

Austin, TX.

Yehuda Katz contributes actively to jQuery, heading up the plugin development

team. He also runs Visual jQuery, a dynamic, browsable version of the jQuery

API, used heavily by new users of the library and core developers alike. Born in

Minnesota and raised in New York, he now lives in sunny Santa Barbara, CA,

where he works for Procore Technologies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933988355
• ISBN 13: 9781933988351
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 347