Learning jQuery 3

Learning jQuery 3: Interactive front-end website development , Fifth Edition

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Today's World Wide Web (WWW) is a dynamic environment and its users set a high bar for both the style and function of sites. To build interesting and interactive sites, developers are turning to JavaScript libraries, such as jQuery, to automate common tasks and to simplify complicated ones. One reason the jQuery library is a popular choice is its ability to assist in a wide range of tasks.

It can seem challenging to know where to begin because jQuery performs so many different functions. Yet, there is a coherence and symmetry to the design of the library; many of its concepts are borrowed from the structure of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The library's design lends itself to a quick start for designers with little programming experience, since many have more experience with these technologies than they do with JavaScript. In fact, in this opening chapter, we'll write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. On the other hand, experienced programmers will also appreciate this conceptual consistency.

In this chapter, we will cover:

The primary features of jQuery
Setting up a jQuery code environment
A simple working jQuery script example
Reasons to choose jQuery over plain JavaScript
Common JavaScript development tools

Key benefits

- 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

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

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