Now that we have learned some advanced details about how to use the Observer Pattern using jQuery, we will get introduced to a special variation of it that fits perfectly to the web platform and provides some extra benefits. The Delegated Event Observer Pattern (or simply Delegate Observer Pattern) is often used in web development and it utilizes the bubbling feature that most events that are fired on DOM elements have. For example, when we click on a page element, the click event is immediately fired on it, and right after this it also fires on all its parent elements until it reaches the root of our HTML document. Using a slightly different overloaded version of the jQuery's $.fn.on method, we can easily create and attach observers on page elements for delegated events that are fired on specific child elements.
jQuery Design Patterns
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Overview of this book
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.
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
jQuery Design Patterns
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
A Refresher on jQuery and the Composite Pattern
The Observer Pattern
The Publish/Subscribe Pattern
Divide and Conquer with the Module Pattern
The Facade Pattern
The Builder and Factory Patterns
Asynchronous Control Flow Patterns
Mock Object Pattern
Client-side Templating
Plugin and Widget Development Patterns
Optimization Patterns
Index
Customer Reviews