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Learning jQuery 3 - Fifth Edition

By : Jonathan Chaffer
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Learning jQuery 3 - Fifth Edition

By: Jonathan Chaffer

Overview of this book

If you are a web developer and want to create web applications that look good, are efficient, have rich user interfaces, and integrate seamlessly with any backend using AJAX, then this book is the ideal match for you. We’ll show you how you can integrate jQuery 3.0 into your web pages, avoid complex JavaScript code, create brilliant animation effects for your web applications, and create a flawless app. We start by configuring and customising the jQuery environment, and getting hands-on with DOM manipulation. Next, we’ll explore event handling advanced animations, creating optimised user interfaces, and building useful third-party plugins. Also, we'll learn how to integrate jQuery with your favourite back-end framework. Moving on, we’ll learn how the ECMAScript 6 features affect your web development process with jQuery. we’ll discover how to use the newly introduced JavaScript promises and the new animation API in jQuery 3.0 in great detail, along with sample code and examples. By the end of the book, you will be able to successfully create a fully featured and efficient single page web application and leverage all the new features of jQuery 3.0 effectively.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Other types of plugins


Plugins need not be limited to providing additional jQuery methods. They can extend the library in many ways and even alter the functionality of existing features.

Plugins can change the way other parts of the jQuery library operate. Some offer new animation easing styles, for instance, or trigger additional jQuery events in response to user actions. The Cycle plugin offers such an enhancement by adding a new custom selector.

Custom selectors

Plugins that add custom selector expressions increase the capabilities of jQuery's built-in selector engine so that we can find elements on the page in new ways. Cycle adds a custom selector of this kind, which gives us an opportunity to explore this capability.

Cycle's slideshows can be paused and resumed by calling .cycle('pause') and .cycle('resume'), respectively. We can easily add buttons that control the slideshow, as shown in the following code:

$(() => {
  const $books = $('#books').cycle({
    timeout: 2000,
    speed:...