Chapter 8. Developing Plugins
The available third-party plugins provide a bevy of options for enhancing our coding experience, but sometimes we need to reach a bit farther. When we write code that could be reused by others or even just ourselves, we may want to package it up as a new plugin. Fortunately, the process of developing a plugin is not much more involved than writing the code that uses it.
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Adding new global functions within the
jQuerynamespace - Adding jQuery object methods that allow us to act on DOM elements
- Creating sophisticated plugins using the jQuery UI widget factory
- Distributing completed plugins to the world
Using the dollar ($) alias in plugins
When we write jQuery plugins, we of course must assume ...
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