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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

Introducing the Mock Object Pattern


The key concept of the Mock Object Pattern is in creating and using a dummy object that simulates the behavior of a more complex object that is (or will be) part of an implementation. The Mock Object should have the same API as the actual (or real) object, return similar results using the same data structures, and also operate in a similar manner with regards to how its methods alter its exposed state (the properties).

Mock Objects are usually created during the early development phases of an application. Their primary use case is to enable us to proceed with the development of a Module, even if it depends on others that have not yet been implemented. Mock Objects can also be described as prototypes of the data exchanged between the different parts of the implementation, acting like contracts between the developers and easing the parallel development of interdependent modules.

Tip

In the same way that the principles of the Module Pattern decouple the implementations...