Hands-on Web Application Development with jQuery

Hands-on Web Application Development with jQuery, Rapidly build exciting interactive web experiences using jQuery, the Write less, do more library

Created by Packt Publishing, English, English [Auto-generated]

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What you'll learn

• Discover the Document Object Model and how to manipulate it with jQuery
• Find out how to create the best user interface for your web applications
• Discover events and how to use them to respond to user actions using jQuery
• Add flair to your actions with a variety of different animation effects
• Master event handling to bring your web pages to life
• Use selectors in a variety of ways to get anything you want from a page when you need it
• Call RESTful web services with jQuery to access remote data

Description

Want to build outstanding visual and interactive web applications by adding amazing JavaScript functionality with ease? jQuery, a fast, extensible, and feature-rich JavaScript library, will come to your rescue. It is easy to get started with and helps you build complex scripting functionality in just a few lines of code.

Our course, although concise, covers just the right content you'll need to build highly scalable applications in JS and jQuery. In this course, you will learn the core capabilities of the jQuery library, including demonstrations of DOM manipulation and traversal; implement animations; and make JSON as well as AJAX requests. You will also manipulate events and change how the user interacts with the page. Throughout the course, you will be building an interactive quiz application using popular JS and jQuery functionalities.

By the end of the course, you will be able to apply jQuery within real-world applications and develop extensible, quicker, and interactive web apps with a powerful yet lightweight jQuery library.

About the Author

Laurence Svekis is a web application developer with 18+ years' hands-on experience with a variety of skills, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, and MySQL. He has worked on multiple enterprise-level applications, hundreds of websites and business solutions, and many unique and innovative web applications. He has been providing web development courses and digital marketing strategy courses since 2002. He is passionate about everything to do with web application development, the digital experience, and programming for online marketing, with a strong focus on social media and SEO.