jQuery UI Cookbook

by Adam Boduch

For jQuery UI developers this is the ultimate guide to maximizing the potential of your user interfaces. Full of great practical recipes that cover every widget in the framework, it's an essential manual. Overview In Detail jQuery UI is the quintessential framework for creating professional user interfaces. While jQuery core lays the foundation for interaction with the DOM and handling events, jQuery UI fills in the user interaction gap. This book will give you a huge productivity boost out of the box with jQuery UI, and help you understand the framework, inside and out. "jQuery UI Cookbook" provides you with practical recipes featuring in-depth coverage of every widget in the framework, including how to address limitations that impact your everyday development activities with these widgets. You'll get a better idea of the big picture – how the framework is composed, how the widgets relate to one another, and how to build on those patterns. Be it a minor tweak on the visual design of a progress bar or a fundamental change in a widget to meet your needs, "jQuery UI Cookbook" covers scenarios both big and small. You can show reminders as tooltips, apply a variety of effects to the menu widget, and start interactions between the dialog widget and API data using deferred objects. These and many more interesting tasks are covered in this book, which can be done with smooth learning and great understanding. You will see how button widgets can fill the width of their containing element, making the layout more consistent. Tabs can be sorted and moved between widgets. You will learn how to do all these things within the context of the big picture, by finding out why the components work the way they do, making you well-versed in jQuery UI. What you will learn from this book Approach Filled with a practical collection of recipes, jQuery UI Cookbook is full of clear, step-by-step instructions that will help you harness the powerful UI framework in jQuery. Depending on your needs, you can dip in and out of the Cookbook and its recipes, or follow the book from start to finish. Who this book is written for If you are a jQuery UI developer looking to improve your existing applications, extract ideas for your new application, or to better understand the overall widget architecture, then jQuery UI Cookbook is a must-have for you. The reader should at least have a rudimentary understanding of what jQuery UI is, and have written some code that uses jQuery UI.

Genres: Programming

290 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Bill Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Where to begin with this book, it is small in size but packs a very powerful punch. If you are tired of buying books that simply say we can help you learn x, y, and z with working code that never actually works then you need to check this book out. Not only is the code in this book organized but it works, and I really enjoyed the how to style along with the why it works follow up. It's also important to note that the author uses a python http server, it's not difficult to tweak settings to use your standard linux/apache setup, I didn't bother with IIS. A few of the UI elements are pretty straight forward, but when you start diving into the elements and adjusting them or adding to them to really grasp what is is and how it functions then this book really is a great cookbook.

A few things that I found really helpful about this book:
Date Picker - I really appreciated how the author added to this and made it unique, you could easily adapt this given the example in the book.
HTML5 - I really enjoyed the author's use of HTML5 and using Tab style setup, just about every program uses tab to shuffle through items and so should web apps!
Tab Menu - Tabs really shine in this book, I really enjoyed seeing them come to life so to speak.
Auto-Fill - Absolutely a must have for today's web generation, let's face it if it does the work for you then it's worth having around as a convenience.

I gave this book a 5/5 because it was simple to follow, had great structure, and contained practical uses that can be applied to a vast majority of today's web applications.

[David Souza · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got this book because I was pretty unfamiliar with jQuery UI. This book really got me up to speed quickly and I felt pretty good just a few chapters in. By the time I finished I felt ready to tackle what I needed to et done. I have gone back to the book a couple of times for reference now as well. Well written, good code, and well thought out.

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clear solutions to practical problems that any practicing developer will encounter with jQuery UI framework.

[Ivan Fraixedes · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an awesomeness of JQuery UI, as its name tell about it, it is a completely cookbook written by an experienced web developer (Adam Boduch).

This book will steer you how to hack, add and improve the wonderful JQuery UI when it doesn't provide straight away the enough functionalities that your crafted web applications need.

Take a look to table of contents in the publisher website to know that I can wander across your reading and be quite sure that you learn some good stuff