THE VIDEO SHELF · javascript
10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
A classic recommendation among JavaScript talks and for reading real library code to learn patterns.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Paul Irish
- Topic
- javascript
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2011–2014
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I found these videos by Paul Irish very interesting too: 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source : [VIDEO] 11 more Things I Learned from the jQuery Source : [LINK]
niyazpk on Hacker News · 2011-02
In JQuery DeconstructedIf 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 …
jarek-foksa on Hacker News · 2011-04
In Code which every programmer must read before dyingTake a look at this. [VIDEO] This is Paul Irish giving a breakdown of interesting bits about jQuery. He talks about this technique roughly 50 minutes in.
geuis on Hacker News · 2011-04
In Tell HN: Will answer your javascript questions for the next few hours
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