With so many folks developing jQuery plugins, it’s not uncommon to come across one that just plain – for lack of better words – sucks. There’s no examples or documentation, the plugin doesn’t follow best practices, etc. But you’re one of the lucky ones: this article will detail the pitfalls that you must avoid.
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In this hands-on Premium screencast, from scratch, we’ll use test-driven development to build a jQuery plugin. Along the way, we’ll take advantage of Grunt, QUnit, and GitHub to build, test, and distribute our plugin, respectively. If the idea of testing in JavaScript is still foreign to you, you won’t find a better introduction!
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Welcome back to the Building a content viewer with Backbone series. Over the first four parts, we looked at almost every major component that ships with the latest version of Backbone including models, controllers, views and routers.
In this part of the tutorial, we’re going to hook our application up to a web server so that we can store our contacts in a database. We won’t be looking at LocalStorage; this is a popular means of persisting the data that Backbone apps use, but the fact is there are already a number of excellent tutorials available on this subject.
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Learn how to use CodeIgniter and the jQuery library to create a slick, AJAX-utilizing management page for a typical “Users” table, and discover some of the awesome features of jQuery UI.
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In part four of this series, we saw how easy it is to add and remove models from our collection, and keep the page updated in sync with the changes. In this part, we’re going to look at editing existing model data.
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Twitter Anywhere is a “one-script-include” solution from Twitter to bring the power of their communication platform to your website. We’ll be building a small jQuery script that utilizes Twitter Anywhere for your users.
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Welcome to part three of our series that focuses on building applications using Backbone. If you haven’t read parts one and two, I strongly recommend that you do — just so you know where we’re at and what we’ve covered so far.
In part one, we took a basic look and models, views and collections. In part two, we looked at routers, events and the history modules. In this part, we’re going to look further at interactions and see how we can add or remove models from a collection.
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Promises are an exciting jQuery feature that make it a breeze to manage async events. They allow you to write clearer, shorter callbacks and keep high-level application logic separate from low-level behaviors.
Once you understand Promises, you’ll want to use them for everything from AJAX calls to UI flow. That’s a promise!
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A couple weeks ago, Tuts+ Premium launched a free new real-time course, called “30 Days to Learn jQuery.” After signing up, each member receives an email, linking to a new video lesson for an entire month.
I’m pleased to announce that, after only two weeks into the course, we’ve amassed the largest jQuery class in the world, with 40,000 registered students!
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We should get this out into the open. There seems to be a commonly held belief that jQuery users are ignorant, and, more often than not, designers. Where did this come from, and is it true?
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