10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source

Classics John Resig : The Dom is a mess link Javascript, The Good Parts link Speed up your Javascript link Brendan Eich : Fluent 2013: Brendan Eich, "JavaScript at 18: Legal to Gamble" link Paul Irish : 10 things I learned from the Jquery source ▶ this video Less known but very interesting Building High-Performing JavaScript for Modern Engines link

Take a look at this. ▶ this video This is Paul Irish giving a breakdown of interesting bits about jQuery. He talks about this technique roughly 50 minutes in.

If you are fronted web developer then you should defenitely read jQuery sources. There is a lot of patterns that you could borrow and reuse in your own JS libraries. A good place to start is this interactive code viewer: link There is also a great presentation by Paul Irish ("10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source"): ▶ this video

I found these videos by Paul Irish very interesting too: 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source : ▶ this video 11 more Things I Learned from the jQuery Source : link