10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source
Paul Irish3 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2011–2014
talk · intermediate · 2011–2014 on HN
Paul Irish walks through the jQuery source code and shares ten lessons and interesting techniques from it, aimed at JavaScript developers who want to learn from a widely used library.
A classic recommendation among JavaScript talks and for reading real library code to learn patterns.
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4 comments from Hacker News
If you are fronted web developer then you should defenitely read jQuery sources. There is a lot of patterns that you could borrow and reuse in your own JS libraries. A good place to start is this interactive code viewer: link There is also a great presentation by Paul Irish ("10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source"): ▶ this video
Take a look at this. ▶ this video This is Paul Irish giving a breakdown of interesting bits about jQuery. He talks about this technique roughly 50 minutes in.
I found these videos by Paul Irish very interesting too: 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source : ▶ this video 11 more Things I Learned from the jQuery Source : link
Classics John Resig : The Dom is a mess link Javascript, The Good Parts link Speed up your Javascript link Brendan Eich : Fluent 2013: Brendan Eich, "JavaScript at 18: Legal to Gamble" link Paul Irish : 10 things I learned from the Jquery source ▶ this video Less known but very interesting Building High-Performing JavaScript for Modern Engines link