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Month: October 2017

5 Reasons You Need To Learn JavaScript This Year

October 28, 2017 wellpaid 2 comments

Now is the best and most rewarding time for you to learn JavaScript. I made the decision a few years ago to focus my learning and career efforts towards JavaScript. In this post I’m going to share with you some of the reasons I did that. I think you’ll find

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Learning JavaScript By Building Your Own Version Of JQuery – Part 4

October 20, 2017 wellpaid Leave a comment

If you’ve been following along with all the posts in this series, you should now have your own very cutdown version of JQuery called . You’re now going to add two functions to that: – Finds all direct children of the selector1, filtered by selector2 – Finds all descendants of

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Learning JavaScript By Building Your Own Version Of JQuery – Part 3

October 12, 2017 wellpaid One comment

Last time you built upon the cutdown object you created in Part 1 by adding the ability to add handlers for many event types in a very efficient manner. This time we’ll add our own equivalent of JQuery’s function. Use JSBin to create an HTML document as follows: If you’ve

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Learning JavaScript By Building Your Own Version Of JQuery – Part 2

October 12, 2017 wellpaid One comment

In part one you built a basic copycat JQuery function () with the ability to add handlers for click events. In this post you’ll expand upon this to allow to be used to add handlers for multiple types of event. The code so far should look like so: You won’t

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Learning JavaScript By Building Your Own Version Of JQuery – Part 1

October 8, 2017 wellpaid 3 comments

JQuery is one of the most popular libraries on the web. Although it seems to be in a decline amongst serious JavaScript engineers in favour of solutions which allow for better engineering, such as React, JQuery had a big impact on JavaScript for many years. Since it’s so well known,

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