jQuery UI Cookbook: For jQuery UI developers this is the ultimate guide to maximizing the potential of your user interfaces. Full of great practical recipes that cover every widget in the framework, it's an essential manual.

Adam Boduch

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Paperback Jul 2013 290 pages 1st Edition

Adam Boduch

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Packed with recipes showing UI developers how to get the most out of their jQuery UI widgets
Solutions to real-world development issues distilled down in a reader-friendly approach
Code examples written in a concise and elegant format making it easy for the reader to adapt to their own style

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jQuery UI is the quintessential framework for creating professional user interfaces. While jQuery core lays the foundation for interaction with the DOM and handling events, jQuery UI fills in the user interaction gap. This book will give you a huge productivity boost out of the box with jQuery UI, and help you understand the framework, inside and out."jQuery UI Cookbook" provides you with practical recipes featuring in-depth coverage of every widget in the framework, including how to address limitations that impact your everyday development activities with these widgets. You'll get a better idea of the big picture ‚Äì how the framework is composed, how the widgets relate to one another, and how to build on those patterns.Be it a minor tweak on the visual design of a progress bar or a fundamental change in a widget to meet your needs, "jQuery UI Cookbook" covers scenarios both big and small. You can show reminders as tooltips, apply a variety of effects to the menu widget, and start interactions between the dialog widget and API data using deferred objects. These and many more interesting tasks are covered in this book, which can be done with smooth learning and great understanding. You will see how button widgets can fill the width of their containing element, making the layout more consistent. Tabs can be sorted and moved between widgets. You will learn how to do all these things within the context of the big picture, by finding out why the components work the way they do, making you well-versed in jQuery UI.

Who is this book for?

If you are a jQuery UI developer looking to improve your existing applications, extract ideas for your new application, or to better understand the overall widget architecture, then jQuery UI Cookbook is a must-have for you. The reader should at least have a rudimentary understanding of what jQuery UI is, and have written some code that uses jQuery UI.

What you will learn

Benefits and tricks in each jQuery UI widget
Build your own widget using the widget factory and the theme framwork
Built-in event-handling utilities for inter-widget communication
Extend widgets to provide the missing behavior your application needs
Extend and improve the design of each widget using the theme framework, overriding defaults such as borders and backgrounds
Details about different widget configurations not covered in the jQuery UI documentation
Discover the role of each widget in an application and how they collectively contribute to a better user experience
Explore coding conventions that work best when writing jQuery UI code
Learn about unique perspectives on approaches to widget development ‚Äì maintainability matters

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Alonzo Hosford Jan 12, 2014

DISCLAIMER: I was offered a free eReader version of the book and files for a promise to review the book.I first looked at the book in September 2013 on my Kindle Reader on iPad. I did not like the swiping back and forth to see code and back to where the author was explaining. So I got bored and stopped or the review would have been done on the spot. If I reviewed then, I was negative.I got back into it today because I was looking for a solution and thought JQuery UI may be the place to go. It reminded me of this book so I went back the iPad Kindle and re-experienced the same excessive swiping issue. Mind you I love my Kindle iPad app and cloud web reader.So I went to my Mac with a nice big screen and could not find the book in my Amazon Kindle Cloud. Negativity was forming in my head and I was ready to bolt.But instead I went to Packet Publishing and looked up the book and my account. There I found the book ready to go with downloads under many formats a big big plus. Amazon, ePub, PDF and their own online cloud reader. I never read a book from Packet using their online reader, so I tried it. Well I was pleasantly surprised. It is easy to navigate the material and the code examples are easy to read and you can copy if you like. In fact you can copy text which is helpful here.Now on to the book. It is what is says, a Cookbook, aimed at the primary JQuery UI Widgets. Each chapter as you can look in the preview, there are several sub sections with small examples of the widget solving various problems. I was interested in the button this time around and the button chapter had "Making simple checklists", "Controlling the spacing with button sets", "Filling space with buttons automatically", "Sorting buttons within a group", "Using effects with the button hover state", "Button icons and hiding text navigation choice". You could navigate quickly to each in the full open menu side bar. Each of those topics demonstrated an easy to digest problem you might want to solve with JQuery UI Button.Adam made all the examples work on all the buttons in your web page. So if you mix and match solutions, you may need to work the JQ selectors to meet your app's needs.I poked around at a few other chapters, because I wanted to check for consistency before writing this review and also the topics were inviting me in out of curiosity.I found the same meticulous organization of content and focus on individual issues for the particular JQUI widget.All the files are downloaded in a snap but I had to rename the compressed file because it had a .html attached. Not sure if Safari, did that, it is a Packet SOP, or a goof. But it only took 2 minutes of time because I was willing to try a second download and look more carefully what was happening. Ordinarily downloaded compressed file decompress automatically in Safari Mac. No biggie, but you can be on the alert.The folder organization of the downloaded files is consistent with the Chapters and their sub heading. The folder name wording did not always match the chapter sub heading, but it was like playing a lite version recaptcha on a matching up a few. Again no biggie. I would recommend the publisher prefixing each folder name with a two digit number or matching word for word the sub heading in the book without spaces or substituting dashes of course.The examples I tried all could be loaded and run from the desktop. All those I tried worked fine. The JQ, JQUI libraries are included in the download to make that happen. Did not try them against the latest JQ, JQUI libraries and I would expect authors who want to keep their buyers confident should regularly check that and put notes up or have their publisher put notes up the examples work with the latest library versions and change those that do not. I publish software programming video courses on these open source libraries. When they come out with a new version I open a cold one and run every example against the new lib to be sure. Then I update the online course material for changes and notify students who generally have perpetual access to the material. I am not going to do that for Adam or Packet, but for open source libs, this should be a best practice in digital publishing.Be aware some examples require a web server. The author suggests a Python server as a simple solution, gives some quick steps. This means server side code examples are in Python. Again just be apprised!You need to heed the suggested reader level which is intermediate JQuery UI and I would add to the, know what an immediate function is in Javascript to set your skill level. Here is the excerpt from the book for your convenience."This book is for the jQuery UI developer looking to improve their existing applications, extract ideas for their new application, or to better understand the overall widget architecture. The reader should at least have a rudimentary understanding of what jQuery UI is, and have written some code that uses jQuery UI. The recipes in this book are targeted at the intermediate jQuery UI developer. "Bottom line is you get a great eBook access. The web version is super and basically makes the content like taking a course. In that regard I think it is a best practice. I have not tried the Packet mobile app versions.Finally the book is a cookbook. So you will likely not read sequentially. I did not detect much problem following by jumping to a later chapter, but I did see depending on your JS and JQ and JQUI background you might wonder if you missed something by starting in the middle. It will more in likely something the book assumed you know.If you are working with JQUI then this will be a handy book.

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SuJo Aug 19, 2013

[...]Where to begin with this book, it is small in size but packs a very powerful punch. If you are tired of buying books that simply say we can help you learn x, y, and z with working code that never actually works then you need to check this book out. Not only is the code in this book organized but it works, and I really enjoyed the how to style along with the why it works follow up. It's also important to note that the author uses a python http server, it's not difficult to tweak settings to use your standard linux/apache setup, I didn't bother with IIS. A few of the UI elements are pretty straight forward, but when you start diving into the elements and adjusting them or adding to them to really grasp what is is and how it functions then this book really is a great cookbook.A few things that I found really helpful about this book: Date Picker - I really appreciated how the author added to this and made it unique, you could easily adapt this given the example in the book. HTML5 - I really enjoyed the author's use of HTML5 and using Tab style setup, just about every program uses tab to shuffle through items and so should web apps! Tab Menu - Tabs really shine in this book, I really enjoyed seeing them come to life so to speak. Auto-Fill - Absolutely a must have for today's web generation, let's face it if it does the work for you then it's worth having around as a convenience.I gave this book a 5/5 because it was simple to follow, had great structure, and contained practical uses that can be applied to a vast majority of today's web applications.

David Souza Sep 24, 2013

I got this book because I was pretty unfamiliar with jQuery UI. This book really got me up to speed quickly and I felt pretty good just a few chapters in. By the time I finished I felt ready to tackle what I needed to et done. I have gone back to the book a couple of times for reference now as well. Well written, good code, and well thought out.

Manuel Ambulo Aug 09, 2015

It's a GREAT book! I recommend it

James Gonzales Aug 28, 2013

Wow, I didn't know that!That's what I kept saying as I went through this book. It takes you a step beyond jQuery UI by extending widgets and the theme framework, completely rewriting some methods, working with JSON, Ajax, querying Github, and more!Already know jQuery UI? Great-you'll learn neat tweaks you can add to it. Not too familiar with it? You can still learn a lot because the code is fully explained in the text.You'll also see examples of jQuery animate() vs CSS animations and learn the differences between them. Other widgets you'll be working with include customizing Sliders, Spinners, Progress Bars and more.Instead of using jQuery UI out of the box, use this book to add that extra touch and polish so your web sites will stand out from the crowd.

jQuery UI Cookbook: For jQuery UI developers this is the ultimate guide to maximizing the potential of your user interfaces. Full of great practical recipes that cover every widget in the framework, it's an essential manual.

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