Packt jQuery Plugin Development Beginner's Guide 288pages software manual

jQuery Plugin Development Beginner's Guide - Utilize jQuery's plugin framework to create a wide range of useful jQuery plugins from scratch
- Understand development patterns and best practices and move up the ladder to master plugin development
- Discover the ins and outs of some of the most popular jQuery plugins in action
- A Beginner's Guide packed with examples and step-by-step instructions to quickly get your hands dirty in developing high quality jQuery plugins

jQuery is the most famous JavaScript library. If you use jQuery a lot, it can be a good idea to start packaging your code into plugins. A jQuery plugin is simply a way to put your code into a package, which makes it easier to maintain your code and use across different projects. While basic scripting is relatively straightforward, writing plugins can leave people scratching their heads.

With this exhaustive guide in hand, you can start building your own plugins in a matter of minutes! This book takes you beyond the basics of jQuery and enables you to take full advantage of jQuery's powerful plugin architecture to deliver highly interactive content to your website viewers.

This book contains all the information you need to successfully author your very own jQuery plugin with a particular focus on the practical aspect of design and development.

This book will also cover some details of real life plugins and explain their functioning to gain a better understanding of the overall concept of plugin development and jQuery plugin architecture.

Different topics regarding plugin development are discussed, and you will learn how to develop many types of add-ons, ranging from media plugins (such as slideshows, video and audio controls, and so on) to various utilities (image pre-loading, handling cookies) and use and applications of jQuery effects and animations (sliding, fading, combined animations) to eventually demonstrate how all of these plugins can be merged and give birth to a new, more complex, and multipurpose script that comes in handy in a lot of situations.

A practical straightforward guide for creating your first jQuery plugin

<b>What you will learn from this book :</b>
- Create numerous types of commonly used jQuery plugins
- Design a standard development pattern to apply to all your plugins to speed up the process
- Build plugins that enhance viewer's multimedia experience on your website
- Learn how to build attractive animation plugins that show effects like fading and sliding
- Discover how jQuery handles third party plugins and how some portions of code can(not) be accessed
- Implement time saving design patterns and best practices to optimize your plugins
- Learn the ins and outs of some of the most popular plugins and how they actually work to do what they do
- Learn via an in-depth practical approach, providing you with a simple, yet effective, structure to minimize efforts and obtain better results quickly

<b>Who this book is written for</b>
This book is for anyone who wants to have a better understanding of the dynamics of jQuery when plugins come into play, as well as for those who are willing to push jQuery to its limits and develop awesome plugins to use in their websites. A little background information about JS and jQuery cannot harm, but even very beginners can have a chance to be introduced to the wonderful world of jQuery.