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jQuery HOTSHOT

By : Dan Wellman
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jQuery HOTSHOT

By: Dan Wellman

Overview of this book

jQuery is used by millions of people to write JavaScript more easily and more quickly. It has become the standard tool for web developers and designers to add dynamic, interactive elements to their sites, smoothing out browser inconsistencies and reducing costly development time.jQuery Hotshot walks you step by step through 10 projects designed to familiarise you with the jQuery library and related technologies. Each project focuses on a particular subject or section of the API, but also looks at something related, like jQuery's official templates, or an HTML5 feature like localStorage. Build your knowledge of jQuery and related technologies.Learn a large swathe of the API, up to and including jQuery 1.9, by completing the ten individual projects covered in the book. Some of the projects that we'll work through over the course of this book include a drag-and-drop puzzle game, a browser extension, a multi-file drag-and-drop uploader, an infinite scroller, a sortable table, and a heat map. Learn which jQuery methods and techniques to use in which situations with jQuery Hotshots.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
jQuery HOTSHOT
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Mission Briefing


In this project we'll build a paged table from data using jQuery and Knockout.js. Client-side paging itself is a great feature, but we'll also allow the table to be sorted by providing clickable table headings, and add some additional features such as filtering the data based on a particular property.

By the end of this mission we'll have built something that looks like the following screenshot:

Why Is It Awesome?

Building complex UIs that respond rapidly to user interaction is hard. It takes time, and the more complex or interactive an application is, the longer it takes and the more code it requires. And the more code an application requires, the harder it is to keep it organized and maintainable.

While jQuery is good at helping us to write concise code, it was never designed with building large-scale, dynamic, and interactive applications in mind. It's powerful, and great at what it does and what it was designed to do; it just wasn't designed to build entire applications...