Chapter 8. Developing Plugins
The available third-party plugins provide a bevy of options for enhancing our coding experience, but sometimes we need to reach a bit farther. When we write code that could be reused by others or even just ourselves, we may want to package it up as a new plugin. Fortunately, the process of developing a plugin is not much more involved than writing the code that uses it.
In this chapter, we will cover:
Adding new global functions within the
jQuerynamespaceAdding jQuery object methods that allow us to act on DOM elements
Creating sophisticated plugins using the jQuery UI widget factory
Distributing completed plugins to the world
