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A classic recommendation among JavaScript talks and for reading real library code to learn patterns.
Paul Irish walks through the jQuery source code and shares ten lessons and interesting techniques from it, aimed at JavaScript developers who want to learn from a widely used library.
“There is also a great presentation by Paul Irish” (HN, 2011)
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]
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]
Great presentation on patterns from the jQuery source
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.
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]
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