Preface

Since its introduction in 2006, the jQuery library has made DOM traversals and manipulations much easier. This has resulted in the appearance of Web pages with increasingly complex user interactions, thus contributing to the maturing of Web as a platform capable of supporting large application implementations.

This book presents a series of best practices that make the implementation of Web applications more efficient. Moreover, we will analyze the most important Design Patterns that Computer Science has to offer, which can be applied to Web development. In this way, we will learn how to utilize techniques that are thoroughly used and tested in other fields of programming, which were initially created as generic methods to model solutions of complex problems.

In jQuery Design Patterns, we will analyze how various Design Patterns are utilized in the implementation of jQuery and how they can be used to improve the organization of our implementations. By adopting the Design Patterns demonstrated in this book, you will be able to create better organized implementations that resolve large problem categories faster. Moreover, when used by a developer team, they can improve the communication between them and lead to homogenous implementation, where every part of the code is easily understood by others.