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10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source

125K views · Jun 14, 2010 · 53:40 · 3 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2011–2014

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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RecommendsniyazpkFeb 2011

“I found these videos by Paul Irish very interesting too”

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

“There is also a great presentation by Paul Irish”

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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RecommendsgeuisApr 2011

“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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Cites ittangueJan 2014

“Paul Irish : 10 things I learned from the Jquery source”

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

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