Paul Irish
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53:40 · 125K views · Jun 14, 2010
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.
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
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]
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.
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]