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jQuery Design Patterns

By : Greasidis
Book Image

jQuery Design Patterns

By: 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 (13 chapters)
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Index

Retrieving HTML templates asynchronously


The final step to mastering client-side templating is a development practice that allows us to load templates dynamically and use them in a web page that has already been loaded. This approach can lead to more scalable implementations than the approach of embedding all the available templates as <script> tags inside the HTML source of each page.

The key element of this technique is to load each template only when it is required for the presentation of a web page, commonly after a user action. The main benefits of this approach are that:

  • The initial page load time is reduced since the HTML of the page is smaller. The gains from the reduction of the page size become even greater if our application has a lot of templates that are used only under certain circumstances, for example, after specific user interactions.

  • The user only downloads a template if it is actually going to be used. In this way, the size of the total downloaded resources for each...