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10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source

10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source

Paul Irish
3 HN recommenders · discussed 2011–2014
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About this video

Paul Irish walks through the jQuery source code and shares ten lessons and interesting techniques from it, aimed at JavaScript developers who want to learn from a widely used library.

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A classic recommendation among JavaScript talks and for reading real library code to learn patterns.

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From the Hacker News discussion

niyazpk · 2011-02 · rec

I found these videos by Paul Irish very interesting too: 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source : [VIDEO] 11 more Things I Learned from the jQuery Source : [LINK]

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jarek-foksa · 2011-04 · rec

If you are fronted web developer then you should defenitely read jQuery sources. There is a lot of patterns that you could borrow and reuse in your own JS libraries. A good place to start is this interactive code viewer: [LINK] There is also a great presentation by Paul Irish ("10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source"): [VIDEO]

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geuis · 2011-04 · rec

Take a look at this. [VIDEO] This is Paul Irish giving a breakdown of interesting bits about jQuery. He talks about this technique roughly 50 minutes in.

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tangue · 2014-01 · reference

Classics John Resig : The Dom is a mess [LINK] Javascript, The Good Parts [LINK] Speed up your Javascript [LINK] Brendan Eich : Fluent 2013: Brendan Eich, "JavaScript at 18: Legal to Gamble" [LINK] Paul Irish : 10 things I learned from the Jquery source [VIDEO] Less known but very interesting Building High-Performing JavaScript for Modern Engines [LINK]

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