Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. This book is a how-to manual complete with recipes that range from writing a simple plug-in to adding enhancements/features to your plug-in.This book is for JavaScript enthusiasts who are looking for hands on recipes to help them develop their own plug-ins.

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. A quick, instruction-based guide full of examples that details on the various aspects of Flot and how users can apply it to data groups for interactive data representation techniques.If you are a data visualization developer, mapping and presentation software developer, or anyone with an interest in jQuery visualization, this book is ideal for you. If you have a working knowledge of jQuery and JavaScript, you can use this book to add sophisticated visualizations to your web application so that your users can easily understand data that is crucial to them.

As an expert jQuery plugin developer and the operator of a website devoted to jQuery education, author Robert Duchnik has had many opportunities to talk with other developers and understand what works and what doesn't when it comes to learning how to build plugins. This short book is intended to quickly get you up to speed with core concepts, which enable you to start building plugins of your own. Experienced developers know that well-written jQuery plugins can reduce bugs, increase efficiency, improve collaboration, and save time. In "jQuery Plugin Development in 30 Minutes", Duchnik will show you how to write clean and efficient jQuery plugins that are easy to maintain and collaborate on. While jQuery Plugin Development in 30 Minutes is intended for people who already have some experience with JavaScript and jQuery, most of the concepts in the guide will appeal to the novice developer, and will not require any advanced knowledge. Topics include: Creating a plugin Prototyping Generate, Init, and Destroy Handling events Plugin options Setters and Getters Styling, CSS, and themes Callbacks Browser and mobile support File organization and versioning* Boilerplate "jQuery Plugin Development in 30 Minutes" also comes with bonus content, including sections on jQuery methods, utilities, selectors, and events, as well as a jQuery glossary.