Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja![]() John Resig and Bear Bibeault MEAP Began: March 2008 Softbound print: May 2012 (est.) | 300 pages ISBN: 193398869X |
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Table of Contents & Resources
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1. Enter the ninja - FREE
2. Testing and debugging - AVAILABLE 3. Functions are fundamental - AVAILABLE 4. Closing in on closures - AVAILABLE 5. Object orientation with prototypes - AVAILABLE 6. Tangling with timers - AVAILABLE 7. Regular expressions - AVAILABLE 8. Developing cross-browser strategies - AVAILABLE 9. Ninja alchemy: Runtime code evaluation - AVAILABLE 10. With statements - AVAILABLE 11. CSS Selector Engine - AVAILABLE 12. DOM modification - AVAILABLE 13. Attributes and CSS - AVAILABLE 14. Events - AVAILABLE 15. Ajax |
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DESCRIPTION
JavaScript developers commonly rely on collections of reusable JavaScript code--written by themselves or by someone else at their company. Alternatively, they rely on code from a third party. But in all these cases they need to know how to either construct a cross-browser library from scratch or be adept at using and maintaining their library of choice.
In Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, JavaScript expert John Resig reveals the inside know-how of the elite JavaScript programmers. Written to be accessible to JavaScript developers with intermediate-level skills, this book will give you the knowledge you need to create a cross-browser JavaScript library from the ground up.
This book takes you on a journey towards mastering modern JavaScript development in three phases: design, construction, and maintenance. You first are given a base of strong, advanced JavaScript knowledge, enabling you to make decisions about the overall design of a library and how to tackle its eventual construction. The book then teaches you how to construct your library. It examines all the numerous tasks JavaScript libraries have to tackle and provides practical solutions and development strategies for their creation. It then guides you through the various maintenance techniques you will need to keep your code running well into the future.
With Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja you will have all the knowledge you need to build your own JavaScript library and to use any modern JavaScript library.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- Advanced features of the JavaScript language
- Detailed cross-browser code problems and solutions
- Best practices
About the Author
John Resig is the creator and lead developer of the ubiquitous jQuery JavaScript Library and author of the critically acclaimed Pro JavaScript Techniques. He is a JavaScript Evangelist for the Mozilla Corporation.
Bear Bibeault has been working in the area of web applications since the mid-nineties, getting started with beta versions of JSP and Servlets. He is a senior moderator at the popular JavaRanch site, and has contributed articles to the JavaRanch Journal as well as Dr Dobb's Journal online. He is a co-author of several Manning books including Ajax in Practice, Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action, jQuery in Action, and jQuery in Action, Second Edition. He works and resides in Austin, Texas.
WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING
“Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja is definitely a book for anyone looking to significantly improve their JavaScript knowledge and skills.”
—Ryan Doherty, Web Development Engineer, Mozilla
About the Early Access Version
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