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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

Building a custom jQuery


In this task we'll build a custom version of jQuery, which will not consist of all of the different modules that make up the "full" version of jQuery combined into the single file which we would normally download from the jQuery site, just like the files we built at the end of the last task, instead it will contain only the core modules.

Engage Thrusters

Now we can build a custom version of jQuery. To build a barebones version of jQuery, omitting all of the non-core components, we can enter the following command into the CLI:

grunt custom:-ajax,-css,-deprecated,-dimensions,-effects,-offset

Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing

Once we have the source and have configured our local environment, we are able to build a custom version of jQuery containing only the core components and omitting all of the optional components.

In this case we've excluded all of the optional components, but we could exclude any one of them, or any combination of them to produce a script file that...