Whether you’re just starting or have been using jQuery for years, this class is a great fit for those with questions about core jQuery concepts. You should be comfortable looking at jQuery and JavaScript code, and experience using the command line is also beneficial.

jQuery Essentials

We’ll cover topics such as:

• Best Practices - How to avoid common performance and maintainability pitfalls.
• Debugging - How to figure out what’s wrong when your code isn’t behaving as expected.
• Event Delegation - How it works and when to use it.
• Deferreds and Promises - How to use the functionality introduced in jQuery 1.5 to tame asynchronous code.
• Templates - How to efficiently update your page using only raw data from the server.
• Code Organization - How to keep your code from turning into a tangled mess.

You’ll have opportunities to try what you’re learning with take-home exercises. By the end of the day, you’ll be ready to tackle front-end development challenges with a better understanding of both JavaScript and the jQuery library.

Led by Ben Alman

Ben Alman is a Senior Developer at Bocoup and author of numerous open source projects such as Grunt, the popular task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects. He also frequently writes and presents on modern JavaScript and jQuery topics at conferences around the world.

Training by Bocoup

Bocoup is an Open Web technology consulting and training company building and supporting tomorrow's Open Web technologies and helping our customers adopt them. Bocoup makes significant contributions to the jQuery core library informed by real-world implementation experience. Bocoup also works on connected jQuery Foundation technologies, infrastructure projects, documentation and getting-started guides as well as numerous other Open Web JavaScript libraries, frameworks and learning materials.