jQuery in Action

jQuery in Action

by Bear Bibeault (Author), Yehuda Katz (Author)

Synopsis

A good web development framework anticipates what developers need to do and makes those tasks easier and more efficient; jQuery practically reads your mind. Developers of every stripe - hobbyists and professionals alike - fall in love with jQuery the minute they've reduced 20 lines of clunky JavaScript into three lines of elegant, readable code. This new, concise JavaScript library radically simplifies how developers traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to web pages. jQuery in Action , like jQuery itself, is a concise tool designed to make web developers both more efficient and effective. In a short 300 pages, this book introduces the jQuery programming model and guides readers through the major features and techniques needed to be productive immediately. The book anchors each new concept in the tasks developers tackle in day-to-day web development and offers unique lab pages where readers can immediately put their jQuery knowledge to work. jQuery in Action offers a rich investigation of the up-and-coming jQuery library for client-side JavaScript.This book covers all major features and capabilities in a manner focused on getting the reader up and running with jQuery from the very first sections. Web developers reading this book will gain a deep understanding of how to use jQuery to simplify their pages and lives, as well as learn the philosophy behind writing jQuery-enhanced pages.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 376
Edition: 1
Publisher: Manning Publications
Published: 07 Feb 2008

ISBN 10: 1933988355
ISBN 13: 9781933988351
Book Overview: jQuery in Action offers a concise, example-driven tutorial on the up-and-coming jQuery library for client-side JavaScript - including the brand new jQuery 1.2 features. This book covers all major jQuery features, providing hands-on examples of jQuery-based rich internet applications.

Author Bio
Bear Bibeault has been working in the area of web applications since the mid- 90s, getting started with beta versions of JSP and Servlets. He is a senior moderator at the popular JavaRanch site, and has contributed articles to that site's JavaRanch Journal. He also co-authored two other Manning books: Ajax in Practice and Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Bear works and resides in Austin, TX. Yehuda Katz contributes actively to jQuery, heading up the plugin development team. He also runs Visual jQuery, a dynamic, browsable version of the jQuery API, used heavily by new users of the library and core developers alike. Born in Minnesota and raised in New York, he now lives in sunny Santa Barbara, CA, where he works for Procore Technologies.