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NFJS2025

jQuery: Functional, Unobstrusive JavaScript

jQuery is a powerful JavaScript library for dealing with HTML, events, animations, and Ajax. Unlike many libraries, jQuery puts the browser object model front-and-center through its ubiquitous wrapped element sets. In this talk, you will learn to progressively enhance your web applications the jQuery way: with unobtrusive, functional JavaScript.

In this talk, you will learn how to:

  • select and modify elements with jQuery's powerful selectors
  • use jQuery's utility functions
  • register event handlers, including dynamic ones that track changes to the page over time
  • play nice with other libraries with noConflict
  • create Ajax requests that return HTML, JSON, and other data types
  • breathe life into your interface with effects and animations
  • unit test your JavaScript code with Screw.Unit, Smoke, and blue-ridge

Stuart Halloway

About Stuart Halloway

Stuart Halloway is a founder and President of Cognitect, Inc. (www.cognitect.com). He is a Clojure committer, and a developer of the Datomic database.

Stuart has spoken at a variety of industry events, including StrangeLoop, Clojure/conj, EuroClojure, ClojureWest, SpeakerConf, QCon, GOTO, OSCON, RailsConf, RubyConf, JavaOne, and NFJS.

Stuart has written a number of books and technical articles. Of these, he is most proud of Programming Clojure.

Learn more about Stu's presentations on his wiki.

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