Learning jQuery 3.x: Interactive front-end website development - Softcover

Boduch, Adam; Chaffer, Jonathan; Swedberg, Karl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785882988 ISBN 13: 9781785882982

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Create efficient and smart web applications with jQuery 3.0 using this step-by-step practical tutorial

Key Features

• Create a fully featured and responsive client-side application using jQuery
• Explore all the latest features of jQuery 3.0 and code examples updated to reflect modern JavaScript environments
• Develop high performance interactive pages

Book Description

If you are a web developer and want to create web applications that look good, are efficient, have rich user interfaces, and integrate seamlessly with any backend using AJAX, then this book is the ideal match for you. We'll show you how you can integrate jQuery 3.0 into your web pages, avoid complex JavaScript code, create brilliant animation effects for your web applications, and create a flawless app.

We start by configuring and customising the jQuery environment, and getting hands-on with DOM manipulation. Next, we'll explore event handling advanced animations, creating optimised user interfaces, and building useful third-party plugins. Also, we'll learn how to integrate jQuery with your favourite back-end framework.

Moving on, we'll learn how the ECMAScript 6 features affect your web development process with jQuery. we'll discover how to use the newly introduced JavaScript promises and the new animation API in jQuery 3.0 in great detail, along with sample code and examples.

By the end of the book, you will be able to successfully create a fully featured and efficient single page web application and leverage all the new features of jQuery 3.0 effectively.

What you will learn

• Create custom interactive elements for your web designs
• Find out how to create the best user interface for your web applications
• Use selectors in a variety of ways to get anything you want from a page when you need it
• Master events to bring your web pages to life
• Add flair to your actions with a variety of different animation effects
• Discover the latest features available in jQuery with the latest update of this incredibly popular title
• Using jQuery npm Packages

Who this book is for

This book is ideal for client-side JavaScript developers. You do need to have any previous experience with jQuery, although basic JavaScript programming knowledge is necessary.

About this title

About the Author

Adam Boduch has been involved with large-scale JavaScript development for nearly 10 years. Before moving to the frontend, he worked on several large-scale cloud computing products, using Python and Linux. No stranger to complexity, Adam has practical experience with real-world software systems, and the scaling challenges they pose.

He is the author of several JavaScript books, including React and React Native, and is passionate about innovative user experiences and high performance.

Jonathan Chaffer is a member of Rapid Development Group, a web development firm located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His work there includes overseeing and implementing projects in a wide variety of technologies, with an emphasis on PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript. In the open source community, he has been very active in the Drupal CMS project, which has adopted jQuery as its JavaScript framework of choice. He is the creator of the Content Construction Kit, now a part of the Drupal core used for managing structured content. He is also responsible for major overhauls of Drupal's menu system and developer API reference. In his spare time, he designs board and card games for the hobby market. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.

Karl Swedberg is a web developer at Fusionary Media in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spends much of his time writing both client-side and server-side JavaScript. When he isn't coding, he likes to hang out with his family, roast coffee in his garage, and exercise at the local gym.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1785882988
• ISBN 13: 9781785882982
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 448