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Micah Snyder
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Description:
Working on a large-scale site makes you look at jQuery a bit differently, and from that less common viewing angle you gain some interesting insights. I broke them down into what jQuery does for Digg, what it doesn't do, and my main takeaways from jQuery while writing DUI:
What it does for us:
- It scales with people / makes sense to non-JS devs. In the utopian future, a firm grasp of JS will be a basic skill for developers. For now though, you have a very small number of focused JS folks bringing everyone else up to speed. The curve between being a JS liability and someone who can write production UI code with jQuery is short and sweet, and that's absolutely essential when you have dozens of devs with only 2 JS guys.
What it doesn't do:
- It doesn't organize our code for us. I wrote DUI specifically to take care of that: We're large enough to require our own highly- organized code structure, but we're not Yahoo. jQuery remains agnostic in that regard, which is a good thing.
jQuery's influence on DUI:
- Sugar is good for you. Look at how jQuery chaining works, how its methods are laid out. It isn't elegant by accident, nor will your code be. Jump through a reasonable number of hoops if you have to -- it's worth the effort to have an API that rules.
Comments on this Talk
Would have liked a few more technical details surrounding the code examples presented (ex. storing actions). Wasn't really enough context to understand what was going on.
Joe McCann,
14 Sep 14:18
El yeah. Good stuff. And I was the only one that got the DK Uber Alles reference... ;-)
kenitech,
14 Sep 17:19
Thanks for presenting at the conference Micah. I enjoyed your style and words of wisdom. It's nice to have a break from straight code talk and think of things on a broader scale. We need more of this since so many of us are sometimes working inside our own bubble. Also a DK fan.
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05 Aug 04:02
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17 Aug 01:59
I did not understand how jQuery chaining works, how its methods are laid out? In fact, you didn't mentioned these on this post. Hence I must discuss these with my partners to clearly know. Thanks anyway, chase personal loans
timbrookson,
19 Aug 21:44
Interesting point of view regarding Digg. I think I will write an essay about this issue.
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