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Mastering jQuery

By : Alex Libby
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Mastering jQuery

By: Alex Libby

Overview of this book

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Wow, we've covered a lot over the last few pages. It has certainly been intense! Let's take a breather, and recap what we've learnt.

We kicked off with a revisit on basic effects, as a reminder of what we can use in jQuery, before exploring the key differences between standard animations and effects. We then moved onto creating custom effects, with a look at the basis for all effects, before creating two examples of custom effects in code.

We then turned our focus to adding custom easings, and explored how those we saw earlier in the book can equally be applied to jQuery effects. We worked our way through an example in the form of adding Bezier curve-based easing support, before exploring how we can achieve similar effects using just CSS. We then briefly covered adding callbacks to our effects, and then explored how we can better control the callbacks by using jQuery's Deferreds / Promises options as an alternative to standard callbacks.

We then rounded up the chapter with a look at...