This sections is focused on helping developers who are knowledgeable in front-end development to heavily leverage jQuery to take the next steps. We teach your developers how to create your own front-end architecture from the best of the open source community today. Our goal is to help students understand how to adopt an application architecture that is maintainable and scalable while keeping simplicity as a core tenant to successful web development. Once completed students will feel confident creating or maintaining advanced front-end centric web applications.

Topics Covered

• Application Architecture
  
  • Application Namespacing
  • The Application Sandbox
  • jQuery UI widget factory
  • Theming
  • Advanced Ajax and Request Management
  • Loosely Coupling Widgets
• QUnit
  
  • How to unit test
  • Asynchronous testing
• Queueing Effects and the Queue pattern
• Client-Side Templating