Step through each of the core concepts of the jQuery library, building an overall picture of its capabilities. Once you have thoroughly covered the basics, the book returns to each concept to cover more advanced examples and techniques.This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications. Basic JavaScript programming and knowledge of HTML and CSS is required. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries.

Get Started Fast with Modern JavaScript Web Development! With the arrival of HTML5, jQuery, and Ajax, JavaScript web development skills are more valuable than ever! This complete, hands-on JavaScript tutorial covers everything you need to know now. Using line-by-line code walkthroughs and end-of-chapter exercises, top web developer and speaker Tim Wright will help you get results fast, even if you’ve never written a line of JavaScript before. Smart, friendly, enthusiastic, and packed with modern examples, Learning JavaScript covers both design-level and development-level JavaScript. You’ll find expert knowledge and best practices for everything from jQuery and interface design to code organization and front-end templating. Wright’s focused coverage includes regular break points and clear reviews that make modern JavaScript easier to learn—and easier to use! Learning JavaScript is your fastest route to success with JavaScript—whether you’re entirely new to the language or you need to sharpen and upgrade skills you first learned a decade ago! Coverage includes • Mastering all of the JavaScript concepts and terminology you need to write new programs or efficiently modify existing code • Creating robust, secure code for both the design and development levels • Maximizing usability, reusability, accessibility, clarity, security, and performance • Taking full advantage of the browser environments your code will run in • Accessing the DOM to create behaviors and data interactions • Storing data for easy and efficient access • Using variables, functions, loops, and other core language features • Interacting with users through events • Communicating with servers through Ajax • Improving your productivity with JavaScript libraries

100+ Practical jQuery Recipes for Solving Your Real-World Web and Mobile Development Challenges! jQuery makes it easier than ever for developers to build exceptionally robust, cross-platform websites and mobile apps. jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile: Recipes and Examples is a practical “cookbook,” packed with realistic, easy-to-use solutions for making the most of jQuery Core, jQuery UI, plugins, and jQuery Mobile. This guide brings together more than one hundred self-contained, downloadable examples, each with an in-depth explanation of how the code works and how to adapt it for your own needs. Pioneering web/mobile developers Adriaan de Jonge and Phil Dutson present examples you can apply immediately in virtually any web or mobile app, and with any server-side platform, including PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby, Node.js, or Python. This extremely useful guide will help you Test browser support and provide for graceful degradation Fine-tune DOM element selection and manipulate your site’s DOM structure Master the newest techniques for event handling and binding Communicate with web servers: AJAX, page errors, redirects, XML, and more Use advanced UI widgets, from accordions and autocomplete to sliders and tabs Build mobile-optimized sites with the jQuery Mobile library Write and smoothly incorporate new plugins Integrate powerful third-party plugins, such as the Twitter Bootstrap framework The authors’ proven “code first, explain later” approach supports developers at all levels who want to start experimenting immediately. Their exceptionally readable examples never take shortcuts or compromise quality,and their detailed walk-throughs are ideal for anyone who wants to thoroughly understand their code. If you have a working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript, you’ll feel right at home immediately; if not, de Jonge and Dutson’s careful explanations and full HTML page layout examples will get you up to speed quickly. Covers jQuery 1.6.4 and 1.7, with Tips for 1.8

1 JavaScript FUNdamentals: The Powerful and Misunderstood Language of The Web 1.1 Expressiveness 1.2 Loose Typing 1.3 Object Literal Notation 1.4 Functions 1.5 Arrays 1.6 Prototypal Nature 1.7 Conventions 1.8 No Modules 1.9 Immediately-Invoked Function Expressions (IIFEs) 1.10 Keyword “this” 1.11 Pitfalls 1.12 Further Learning 2 CoffeeScript FUNdamentals: The Better JavaScript 2.1 Semicolons, Whitespace and Parentheses 2.2 Vars 2.3 Conditions 2.4 Functions 2.5 Classes 2.6 Arrays and Slicing 2.7 Splats 2.8 Comprehensions 2.9 Conclusion 3 Backbone.js FUNdamentals: The Cornerstone of JavaScript MV* Frameworks 3.1 Typical Backbone.js App Structure 3.2 Setting up Backbone.js App from Scratch 3.3 Dependencies for the Backbone.js Project 3.4 Working with Backbone.js Collections 3.5 Event Binding with Backbone.js and jQuery 3.6 Backbone.js Views and Subviews with Underscore.js 3.7 Super Simple Backbone Starter Kit 3.8 Conclusion 4 Node.js FUNdamentals: JavaScript on The Server 4.1 Read-Eval-Print Loop (a.k.a. Console) in Node.js 4.2 Launching Node.js Scripts 4.3 Node.js Process Information 4.4 Accessing Global Scope in Node.js 4.5 Exporting and Importing Modules 4.6 Buffer is a Node.js Super Data Type 4.7 __dirname vs. process.cwd 4.8 Handy Utilities in Node.js 4.9 Reading and Writing from/to The File System in Node.js 4.10 Streaming Data in Node.js 4.11 Installing Node.js Modules with NPM 4.12 Hello World Server with HTTP Node.js Module 4.13 Debugging Node.js Programs 4.14 Taming Callbacks in Node.js 4.15 Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl 4.16 Moving Forward with Express.js 5 Express.js FUNdamentals: The Most Popular Node.js Framework 5.1 Express.js Installation 5.2 Express.js Command-Line Interface 5.3 Routes in Express.js 5.4 Middleware as The Backbone of Express.js 5.5 Configuration of an Express.js App 5.6 Jade is Haml for Express.js/Node.js 5.7 Conclusion About The Express.js Framework 5.8 Update 6 About the Author 6.1 Errata 6.2 Contact Us

Annotation Modern web application user interface design requires rapid development and proven results. jQuery UI, a trusted suite of official plug-ins for the jQuery JavaScript library, gives you a solid platform on which to build rich and engaging interfaces with maximum compatibility and stability, and minimum time and effort. jQuery UI has a series of ready-made, great-looking user interface widgets and a comprehensive set of core interaction helpers designed to be implemented in a consistent and developer-friendly way. With all this, the amount of code that you need to write personally to take a project from conception to completion is drastically reduced. Specially revised for version 1.7 of jQuery UI, this book has been written to maximize your experience with the library by breaking down each component and walking you through examples that progressively build upon your knowledge, taking you from beginner to advanced usage in a series of easy-to-follow steps. In this book, you'll learn how each component can be initialized in a basic default implementation and then see how easy it is to customize its appearance and configure its behavior to tailor it to the requirements of your application. You'll look at the configuration options and the methods exposed by each component's API to see how these can be used to bring out the best of the library. Events play a key role in any modern web application if it is to meet the expected minimum requirements of interactivity and responsiveness, and each chapter will show you the custom events fired by the component covered and how these events can be intercepted and acted upon.

jQuery is one of the hottest emerging web development technologies. Fully supported by Microsoft, Google, and a who's who list of companies and platforms, it simplifies the development of standards-based interactive websites. This bookprovides a complete, in- depth look at jQuery and related technologies, providing you with a single source of all the information you need to maximize your web development skills. As the book progresses, it delves deeper into other topics, providing lessons and examples to accomplish tasks common to both basic and advanced web development techniques.