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.
Why Hacker News points people here: A classic recommendation among JavaScript talks and for reading real library code to learn patterns.
“There is also a great presentation by Paul Irish”HN comment, 2011
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Paul Irish's talk of jQuery source lessons
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I found these videos by Paul Irish very interesting too: 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source : this video 11 more Things I Learned from the jQuery Source : link
Recommendsjarek-foksaApr 2011
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Great presentation on patterns from the jQuery source
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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"): this video
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“This is Paul Irish giving a breakdown of interesting bits about jQuery.”
Breakdown of interesting techniques in jQuery
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Take a look at this. 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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Classic talk listed among JavaScript talks
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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 this video Less known but very interesting Building High-Performing JavaScript for Modern Engines link