jQuery in Action – Bear Bibeault, Yehuda Katz, Aurelio de Rosa – 3rd Edition

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jQuery in Action, Third Edition, is a fast-paced guide to jQuery, focused on the tasks you’ll face in nearly any web dev project. In it, you’ll learn how to traverse the DOM, handle events, perform animations, write jQuery plugins, perform Ajax requests and even unit test your code. Its unique Lab Pages anchor each concept in real-world code. This expanded Third Edition adds new chapters that teach you how to interact with other tools and frameworks and build modern single-page web applications.

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  • Part 1 Starting with jQuery
    1 Introducing jQuery
    1.1 Write less, do more
    1.2 Unobtrusive JavaScript
    1.3 Installing jQuery
    1.4 How jQuery is structured
    1.5 jQuery fundamentals
    1.6 Summary

    Part 2 Core jQuery
    2 Selecting elements
    2.1 Selecting elements for manipulation
    2.2 Basic selectors
    2.3 Retrieving elements by their hierarchy
    2.4 Selecting elements using attributes
    2.5 Introducing filters
    2.6 Enhancing performances using context
    2.7 Testing your skills with some exercises
    2.8 Summary

    3 Operating on a jQuery collection
    3.1 Generating new HTML
    3.2 Managing the jQuery collection
    3.3 Summary

    4 Working with properties, attributes and data
    4.1 Defining element properties and attributes
    4.2 Working with attributes
    4.3 Manipulating element properties
    4.4 Storing custom data on elements
    4.5 Summary

    5 Bringing pages to life with jQuery
    5.1 Changing element styling
    5.2 Setting element content
    5.3 Dealing with form element values
    5.4 Summary

    6 Events are where it happens!
    6.1 Understanding the browser event models
    6.2 The jQuery Event Model
    6.3 Summary

    7 Demo: DVD discs locator
    7.1 Putting events (and more) to work
    7.2 Summary

    8 Energizing pages with animations and effects
    8.1 Showing and hiding elements
    8.2 Animating the display state of elements
    8.3 Adding more easing functions to jQuery
    8.4 Creating custom animations
    8.5 Animations and queuing
    8.6 Summary

    9 Beyond the DOM with jQuery utility functions
    9.1 Using the jQuery properties
    9.2 Using other libraries with jQuery
    9.3 Manipulating JavaScript objects and collections
    9.4 Miscellaneous utility functions
    9.5 Summary

    10 Talk to the server with Ajax
    10.1 Brushing up on Ajax
    10.2 Loading content into elements
    10.3 Making GET and POST requests
    10.4 Taking full control of an Ajax request
    10.5 Summary

    11 Demo: an Ajax-powered contact form
    11.1 The features of the project
    11.2 Creating the markup
    11.3 Implementing the PHP backend
    11.4 Field validation using Ajax
    11.5 Even more fun with Ajax
    11.6 Improving the user experience using effects
    11.7 A note on accessibility
    11.8 Summary

    Part 3 Advanced Topics
    12 When jQuery is not enough...plugins to the rescue!
    12.1 Why extend jQuery?
    12.2 Where to find plugins
    12.3 The jQuery plugin authoring guidelines
    12.4 Demo: creating a slideshow as a jQuery plugin
    12.5 Writing custom utility functions
    12.6 Summary

    13 Avoiding the callback hell with Deferred
    13.1 Introduction to promises
    13.2 The Deferred and Promise objects
    13.3 The Deferred methods
    13.4 Promisifying all the things
    13.5 Summary

    14 Unit testing with QUnit
    14.1 Why is testing important?
    14.2 Getting started with QUnit
    14.3 Creating tests for synchronous code
    14.4 Testing your code using assertions
    14.5 How to test asynchronous tasks
    14.6 noglobals and notrycatch
    14.7 Group your tests in modules
    14.8 Configuring QUnit
    14.9 An example test suite
    14.10 Summary

    15 How jQuery fits into large projects
    15.1 Improving the performance of your selectors
    15.2 Organizing your code into modules
    15.3 Loading modules with RequireJS
    15.4 Managing dependencies with Bower
    15.5 Creating single-page applications with Backbone.js
    15.6 Summary
    15.7 The end
    Appendix JavaScript that you need to know but might not!

    Index
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