Maybe you’re a jQuery pro. Maybe you’re John Resig... But, in the other hand, maybe you read words like “jQuery”, and think: “jQuery What?” .
If you belong to this category of person, now is the time to learn jQuery.
According to jQuery.com, jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
jQuery is undoubtedly the most popular JavaScript library on the web today. It is used by 70% of the top websites and is becoming a standard in web development.
So, let's learn JQuery!
First of all: The jQuery Libraries
jQuery is a library that makes it easy to work with the DOM, listen for events, animate elements and issue AJAX requests among other things. However, actually jQuery supports three libraries that are:
- The jQuery library. This is the "official" library that people usually refer to when they use jQuery.
- jQuery Mobile is a lightweight framework for developing mobile webapps or websites.
- jQuery UI. A collection of widgets like date pickers, dialogs, progress bars, effects and more aimed at interactive web applications.
Start using with jQuery:
- JavaScript 101 an introductory article to JavaScript from the jQuery site.
- The jQuery Getting Started Guide is a good first step for beginners. It explains basics like how you should include jQuery in your web page, and how to write a first script.
- Try jQuery an interactive course with videos and code challenges that you can take for free.
Free eBooks on jQuery
- Eloquent JavaScript for learning the basics of programming with JavaScript.
- Mozilla Developer Network’s JavaScript Guide is another good overview of the language.
- JavaScript Enlightenment this e-book covers advanced concepts like closures, prototypes, complex values, inheritance and more.
- Dom Enlightenment for a deep understanding of the relationship between JS and the DOM.
- Single Page Web Apps in Depth is an e-book that teaches you how to make a native application. You will learn about implementing collections, models and views in JS, synchronizing them with your backend, and writing maintainable code.
- Learning JavaScript Design Patterns is an e-book that explores the world of JavaScript applications.
- Patterns for Large-Scale JavaScript Applications is an e-book focuses on organizing large code bases.
- jQuery Fundamentals is a must-read e-book for every jQuery beginner.
- jQuery Succinctly is an e-book that explains the essencial concepts of advanced jQuery development.
- jQuery has a very good API documentation, full of example code, which is a book on its own right.
Jquery Courses and training
- Lessons by appendTo() it contains free video lessons on JavaScript, jQuery, events, methods and selectors.
- Learn jQuery is the official learning portal for the jQuery library.
- JavaScript interactive is a console-based course that involves writing code in your browser and passing challenges.
- Learn jQuery in 30 Days is a free newsletter course by tutsplus. After subscribing you will receive a video lesson in your email every day for 30 days.
- Learning Advanced JavaScript is a series of jQuery tips wrote by John Resig.
jQuery Videos
Here are some of the best jQuery videos that you can watch right now for free:
jQuery Presentations
Here are some of the most popular jQuery presentations:
- jQuery in 30 minutes
- jQuery proven performance tips and tricks is a great collection of tips.
- jQuery Anti-Patterns is a presentation that explains how to organize your code.
- Using objects to organize your code
- jQuery: It’s a library, not a framework
- Things you might not know about jQuery
jQuery Tutorials and Blogs
Here are the best places to find jQuery tutorials and blogs:
- Our own tutorial collection covers lots of jQuery goodness and tips.
- Nettuts has a large collection of jQuery tutorials.
- jQuery Howto is one of the oldest jQuery blogs.
- jQuery For Designers is a very popular tutorial website which unfortunately hasn’t been updated for a couple of years.
- Badass JS is a blog that presents awesome developments in the JavaScript world.
- DailyJS is a blog with a lots of new plugins and tips.
jQuery Misc
- JavaScript Garden
- jQAPI is an alternative jQuery documentation browser.
- jQuery Cheatsheet is a quick reference of the entire jQuery API.
- jQuery Deconstructed
- Unheap is a tidy collection of jQuery plugins.
- jQuery Plugins is the official jQuery plugin site.
- Microjs is a collection of minimal JavaScript libraries.
- JSDB is a collection of useful libraries and plugins.
- CDNJS is a CDN that hosts lots of libraries.