Structuring your code with JQuery
Once you get passed your need to just link certain DOM elements to some hefty Javascript, which as far as I’m concerned JQuery does best, you ultimately get to a point where you have scripts that are just too big to easily maintain. What then? There’s not really that much written on this subject. No where near the best practices that you find on other languages.
The quickest and no bull presentation I could find out is embedded below. It’s not new, but it’s a very useful one on how to structure your code with JQuery.
I chose to disregard the “common belief” that JQuery is not suppose to be used to write large Javascript apps. One should be using Dojo or YUI for that. Agai, I think there’s nothing better than JQuery at the moment. That’s the library that made me [finally] accept that the best way to build web apps is to have [any] Javascript framework at the core and use the server side only to … serve your scripts (and that after coding in Java for more than 10 years and most of those for the web, in one form or another).
And then I found another one…
