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10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source

Paul Irish · talk · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

A classic recommendation among JavaScript talks and for reading real library code to learn patterns.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2011, last 2014

What HN commenters said

  1. “I found these videos by Paul Irish very interesting too”

    Paul Irish's talk of jQuery source lessons

    niyazpk, 2011-02 · Recommendation · in “JQuery Deconstructed”

  2. “There is also a great presentation by Paul Irish”

    Great presentation on patterns from the jQuery source

    jarek-foksa, 2011-04 · Recommendation · in “Code which every programmer must read before dying”

  3. “This is Paul Irish giving a breakdown of interesting bits about jQuery.”

    Breakdown of interesting techniques in jQuery

    geuis, 2011-04 · Recommendation · in “Tell HN: Will answer your javascript questions for the next few hours”

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Topics: jquery, source code reading, javascript patterns, paul irish, web development

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