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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

You Ready To Go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge


We've learned how to build our own jQuery, and excluded the maximum number of components, so at the time of writing, there isn't much more we can do.

If you're reading this after version 1.9 of jQuery has been released, there may be more components that you can exclude, or other techniques for building jQuery, so to really cement your understanding of the build process, build a new custom build that also excludes any new optional components.

If there aren't any new optional components, I'd recommend you to spend some time writing QUnit tests for any custom scripts that you've written. The idea is to write a test that replicates a bug. Then you can fix the bug and watch the test pass.