Chapter 1. jQuery extensions
This chapter covers
- jQuery’s origins and purpose
- What you can extend in jQuery
- Examples of existing extensions
Today, jQuery is the most widely used JavaScript library on the web. It offers many functions to make life easier as a front-end developer, such as the ability to traverse the HTML Document Object Model (DOM) to find the elements you want to work with and apply animations to those elements. Moreover, the developers of jQuery have recognized that it can’t (and shouldn’t) do everything, and have provided extension points that allow additional functionality to be integrated into the normal jQuery processing. This foresight has contributed to its popularity.
In this book I explain how you can extend various ...
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