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NEWER EDITION AVAILABLE
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, Second Edition is now available. An eBook of this older edition is included at no additional cost when you buy the revised edition!
Secrets of the Javascript Ninja takes you on a journey towards mastering modern JavaScript development in three phases: design, construction, and maintenance. Written for 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.
about the technology
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.
about the book
You can't always attack software head-on. Sometimes you come at it sideways or sneak up from behind. You need to master an arsenal of tools and know every stealthy trick. You have to be a ninja.
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja leads you down the pathway to JavaScript enlightenment. This unique book starts with key concepts, like the relationships between functions, objects, and closures, taught from the master's perspective. You'll grow from apprentice to ninja as you soak up fresh insights on the techniques you use every day and discover features and capabilities you never knew about. When you reach the final chapters, you'll be ready to code brilliant JavaScript applications and maybe even write your own libraries and frameworks.
You don't have to be a ninja to read this book—just be willing to become one. Are you ready?
what's inside
- Functions, objects, closures, regular expressions, and more
- Seeing applications and libraries from the right perspective
- Dealing with the complexities of cross-browser development
- Modern JavaScript design
about the reader
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.
about the authors
John Resig is an acknowledged JavaScript authority and the creator of the jQuery library. Bear Bibeault is a web developer and coauthor of Ajax in Practice, Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action, and jQuery in Action from Manning.
From two masters, the art of crafting effective cross-browser JavaScript.
Consistent with the jQuery motto, "Write less, do more".
Interesting and original techniques.
Read this book and you'll no longer blindly plug in a snippet of code and marvel at how it works - you'll understand "why" it works.
Will help you raise your JavaScript to the realm of the masters.
