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Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja
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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

Table of Contents         Resources 
  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 		 

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

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

This Early Access version of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Online

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