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10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source

Paul Irish3 HN recommenders · 2011–2014
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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.

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

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@niyazpk2011 · in “JQuery Deconstructed”

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-foksa2011 · in “Code which every programmer must read before dying”

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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@geuis2011 · in “Tell HN: Will answer your javascript questions for the next few hours”

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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@tangue2014 · in “Wonderful Javascript Talks?”

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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