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jQuery Design Patterns

By : Thodoris Greasidis
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jQuery Design Patterns

By: Thodoris Greasidis

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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
jQuery Design Patterns
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about the Observer Pattern, how it can make the HTML code of our web pages cleaner, and the way that decouples it from our application's code. We learned how jQuery adds a protection layer to its methods in order to protect us from undetected memory leaks, which may occur by adding observers to elements, when not using the jQuery DOM manipulation methods.

We also tried the Delegated Event Observer Pattern variant and used it to rewrite our initial example. We compared the two implementations and saw how it simplifies writing code that applies to many page elements when they are generated after the page has been loaded. Finally, we had a comparison regarding the memory consumption of the plain Observer Pattern with its delegate variant and highlighted how it also lessens the memory consumption of our page by reducing the required number of attached observers.

Now that we have completed our introduction on how the Observer Pattern is used to listen to user...