jQuery in Action 3rd Edition

by Bear Bibeault (Author), Yehuda Katz (Author), Aurelio De Rosa (Author)

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Summary

jQuery in Action, Third Edition, is a fast-paced and complete guide to jQuery, focused on the tasks you'll face in nearly any web dev project. Written for readers with minimal JavaScript experience, this revised edition adds new examples and exercises, along with the deep and practical coverage you expect from an In Action book. You'll learn how to traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, write plugins, and even unit test your code. The unique lab pages anchor each concept with real-world code. Several new chapters teach you how to interact with other tools and frameworks to build modern single-page web applications.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Thanks to jQuery, no one remembers the bad old days when programmers manually managed browser inconsistencies, CSS selectors support, and DOM navigation, and when every animation was a frustrating exercise in raw JavaScript. The elegant, intuitive jQuery library beautifully manages these concerns, and jQuery 3 adds even more features to make your life as a web developer smooth and productive.

About the Book

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.

What's Inside

Updated for jQuery 3
DOM manipulation and event handling
Animations and effects
Advanced topics including Unit Testing and Promises
Practical examples and labs

About the Readers

Readers are assumed to have only beginning-level JavaScript knowledge.

About the Authors

Bear Bibeault is coauthor of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, Ajax in Practice, and Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Yehuda Katz is an early contributor to jQuery and cocreator of Ember.js. Aurelio De Rosa is a full-stack web developer and a member of the jQuery content team.

Table of Contents

PART 1 STARTING WITH JQUERY

Introducing jQuery

PART 2 CORE JQUERY

Selecting elements
Operating on a jQuery collection
Working with properties, attributes, and data
Bringing pages to life with jQuery
Events are where it happens!
Demo: DVD discs locator
Energizing pages with animations and effects
Beyond the DOM with jQuery utility functions
Talk to the server with Ajax 260
Demo: an Ajax-powered contact form

PART 3 ADVANCED TOPICS

When jQuery is not enough...plugins to the rescue!
Avoiding the callback hell with Deferred
Unit testing with QUnit
How jQuery fits into large projects

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About the Author

Bear Bibeault is coauthor of Manning's bestselling Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, along with Ajax in Practice, and Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action.

Yehuda Katz is the co-creator of the EmberJS framework, a former lead developer on SproutCore, and is well-known for his contributions to Rails 4, jQuery, Bundler, and Merb.

Aurelio De Rosa is a full-stack web and app developer who develops jQuery plugins and contributes to various open source projects including the jQuery API documentation.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1617292079
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning; 3rd edition (September 19, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 504 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781617292071
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1617292071
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.81 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 1 x 9.25 inches

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Bear Bibeault
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Bear Bibeault has been writing software for over three decades, starting with a Tic-Tac-Toe program written on a Control Data Cyber supercomputer via a 100-baud teletype. Because he has two degrees in Electrical Engineering, Bear should be probably designing antennas or something like that, but since his first job with Digital Equipment Corporation, he has always been much more fascinated with programming.
Bear has also served stints with companies such as Dragon Systems, Works.com, Logitech, and even served in the U. S. Military teaching infantry soldiers how to blow things up; the latter teaching him skills crucial for working in Agile software teams.
Bear is currently a front-end developer for the Washington Post.
In addition to his day job, Bear also writes books (who knew?), runs a small business that creates web applications and offers other media services (but not wedding videography, never wedding videography), and helps to moderate CodeRanch.com as a "marshal" (senior moderator).
When not planted in front of a computer, Bear likes to cook big food (which accounts for his jeans size), dabble in photography and video editing, ride his Yamaha V-Star, and wear tropical print shirts.
He works and resides in Austin, TX.
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Foti Massimo

Made the whole learning process much more enjoyable

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2008

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I have solid JavaScript skills and plenty of experience, but at first I wasn't feeling 100% comfortable using jQuery; I was able to be productive very quickly, but failed to feel at home using it. This book was exactly what I was looking for. jQuery has its own way to approach many problems and, in my case, I almost had to "unlearn" certain habits and embrace the idiomatic alternatives offered by the library. jQuery in Action helped me a lot in the process, saved me some time and made the whole learning process much more enjoyable. I wish there was more space dedicated to ui.jQuery, but I understand that's a topic worth a dedicated book.

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Robert

Great Book

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2009

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I really enjoyed this book. The writing is excellent, it's well organized, and the the examples are easy to understand. They even include a few well-produced labs that let you experiment with new concepts. However I have a few caveats and criticisms: When examples and labs are provided, they're excellent, but they are often far and few between. I found myself having to visit the jQuery website many times for better or more detailed examples. Also, you absolutely, positively need at least an intermediate knowledge of JavaScript and CSS.

It's very fast paced, and a relatively slim volume, jam-packed with info. Highly recommended.

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Chad Lowe

Very Informative

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2021

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This is the book to get if you want to master jQuery. It covers just about everything you would ever need to know.

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Craig B. Kaminsky

Great Book, Best Ajax Library

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2008

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This is just an excellent book all around. It's well-written. No BS to wade through (just the stuff you need to get going with jQuery). It has excellent online tools to download so you can really get into jQuery and how it works (they call it a Lab page -- it's a set of HTML pages that you download and use to test tasks or theories in jQuery).

I haven't read too many books solely on Ajax frameworks but I cannot recommend this one enough. You'll be up and running with jQuery faster than you can imagine.

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David Rankin

Time Well Spent

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2010

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Will get you up to speed on JQuery. Provides an overview of JQuery, the Plug In framework and how to program instructions, but I think the book might have been a little better organized. I think that Appendix A should have been chapter 1 and chapter 6 pertaining to the utility functions should have been chapter 2. Also I couldn't get the zip file containing the "lab" and source code to download from the Manning web site.

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Richard T. Harding

Good, but just a hair thin

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2008

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This is a really nice book on jquery. I've been using jQuery on a few projects, but this really helped point me to several things I could be doing better. All too often you find yourself following a tutorial blindly, without full understanding. This book set a few of my "tutorial assumptions" straight.

I only wish it had a little more meat to it. I think it's just a matter of a few things I'd hoped to find not being there though. Definitely suggest this book if you're serious about messing with jQuery in a real project.

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Ryan

Excellent Read, and Excellent Information

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2013

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I like the conversational style (it even has Cowboy Bebop references:), especially since the authors really seemed to try to understand the material from a newcomer's perspective.

I recommend pairing it with jQuery Cookbook (by the jQuery Community Experts) because they trace the same ideas from slightly different angles and you'll covers all the bases.

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J. Mucci

this book knows what you think

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2008

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I purchased this book as soon as it was available. I knew very little about JavaScript then and jQuery in Action does not assume that you know anything about it. The examples are very clear and the book is very carefully written without unnecessary words. But you get more. The authors lead you to show how to think, they designed the samples to advance from trivial to professional knowledge. Often, scanning through the example code, I found myself asking "why is it this way?" and immediately in the next paragraph, there was the answer. I am impressed with the quality of writing, I think every serious professional should read this book whether or not he/she plans to use jQuery.

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Psdeudonimo

Not for beginners of JS.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2018

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For the people in a rush:
Worth it if you're not a beginner of JS. And have a couple weeks to spend onto it.
Not in ES6.
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For the others:
This book deserves 5 stars for the consistency of the method and the clear explanations; it also deserves 2 for the nightmarish demos it has.
Pros:
Clear and consistent. A quality very difficult to find. The title is readable although could use a bit of shrinking, literally some pages are just random talk. Every single method is detailed and often demonstrated. Totally worth it.
Cons:
If you're a beginner you might enjoy the easy and clear explanations but the code is going to give you a migraine. The demos are just unholy.
Separation of concerns is not taken into account so everything is stuffed into the HTML. (I know it's not a book on web design but the basics...), this has the insult to injury of deactivating whatever linter you're using.
Functions that are used later are placed before others that are used earlier (I know it doesn't matter to JS but it's awful style). The code is in small prints and is difficult to follow clearly. And lastly the code is in one page, and the comment on the opposite which works very well for every library that doesn't make a big deal of chaining dozens of operations on a single line as jquery does.
Final thoughts:
Read it but don't be overwhelmed by the awful code in the demos as anybody who codes like that professionally is going to get a brick thrown at.

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Exiled-Edik

extremely useful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 18, 2011

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I'd argue that a Javascript background isn't too essential to start this book, but some css ability and a general understanding of programming concepts and the DOM are really needed to gain a full understanding. This book is certainly not for complete beginners and many may find it tough even at an introductory level.

The downloadable labs are an excellent idea well implemented and re-enforce the books material in a very elegant way - this makes the book itself head and shoulders above other jQuery introductions.

I have the first edition - based on the 2006/2007 jQuery 1.2.1 - outdated but still a pretty damn good introduction.

The guys did a good job and should be congratulated.

manbuysdog

Good book for beginner to intermediate

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2017

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Some good chapters for a intermediate developer, but mainly aimed at the beginner to intermediate developer.

Telmo Vidrago Gondar

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 29, 2015

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as expected

Todd

Great

Reviewed in Canada on March 22, 2019

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