jQuery Design Patterns

Thodoris Greasidis



Learn the best practices on writing efficient jQuery applications to maximize performance in large-scale deployments

jQuery is a feature-rich JavaScript library that makes HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a variety of browsers. With a combination of versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write JavaScript.

jQuery solves the problems of DOM manipulation, event detection, AJAX calls, element selection and document queries, element attribute and data management, as well as object management utilities. This book addresses these problems and shows you how to make the best of jQuery through the various design patterns available.

The book starts off with a refresher to jQuery and will then take you through the different design patterns such as facade, observer, publisher/subscriber, and so on. We will also go into client-side templating techniques and libraries, as well as some plugin development patterns. Finally, we will look into some best practices that you can use to make the best of jQuery.

Table of Contents

1: A REFRESHER ON JQUERY AND THE COMPOSITE PATTERN
2: THE OBSERVER PATTERN
3: THE PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE PATTERN
4: DIVIDE AND CONQUER WITH THE MODULE PATTERN
5: THE FACADE PATTERN
6: THE BUILDER AND FACTORY PATTERNS
7: ASYNCHRONOUS CONTROL FLOW PATTERNS
8: MOCK OBJECT PATTERN
9: CLIENT-SIDE TEMPLATING
10: PLUGIN AND WIDGET DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS
11: OPTIMIZATION PATTERNS