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jQuery HOTSHOT

You're reading from   jQuery HOTSHOT Ten practical projects that exercise your skill, build your confidence, and help you master jQuery

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849519106
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dan Wellman Dan Wellman
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

jQuery HOTSHOT
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Sliding Puzzle FREE CHAPTER 2. A Fixed Position Sidebar with Animated Scrolling 3. An Interactive Google Map 4. A jQuery Mobile Single-page App 5. jQuery File Uploader 6. Extending Chrome with jQuery 7. Build Your Own jQuery 8. Infinite Scrolling with jQuery 9. A jQuery Heat Map 10. A Sortable, Paged Table with Knockout.js Index

Mission Accomplished


Our application runs mostly on Knockout functionality, which allows us to easily populate dynamic elements with content, add event handlers, and generally manage the state of the application. We use jQuery too, mostly in a DOM selection capacity, and also occasionally when we wish to use a utility, such as the $.each() method that we leveraged several times.

It would have been equally as possible to build this application purely using jQuery and without using Knockout at all; however, jQuery itself was never designed nor intended to be the complete solution to building complex dynamic applications.

What we generally find when we try to build complex dynamic applications using jQuery alone, is that our script very quickly becomes a bloated mess of event handlers that is neither easy to read, or maintain, or update at a future point.

Using Knockout to handle maintaining the state of an application, and using jQuery to fulfill the role it was intended for, gives us the ideal...

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