Assignment

Your assignment will be to build your own jQuery library through a series of different steps. This will help you learn JavaScript. All tasks are jQuery equivalent methods.

To be clear, you cannot use jQuery. You must use standard JavaScript methods to create jQuery equivalent methods.

Rules:

1. every task should be in its own folder

• every task should be tested with jasmine. Specs should be in the task folder named spec
• every task should be completed in order. Do not skip ahead, as tasks build upon one another

You should solve one task at a time. Every task is described by specs and your implementation must pass all of them. It would be good for you to have one or more mentors, but this is not mandatory. They should go through your code and give you feedback on what is good, what is bad, and how you can write it better. Also, a mentor will help keep you on task, minimize your frustrations, and maximize the value of this project.

Tasks

All tasks should be compatible with the W3C standard. Everything needs to work in all major modern browsers. You do not need to make them backwards compatible with older IE browsers.

Helpful references:

• Mozilla Developer Network
• DevDocs
• Can I Use

0. Example

You need to write a function that computes n-th Fibonacci number.

The code can be found in repository /00.example/src.

Also, specs for this task can be found in /00.example/spec.

1. Simple Selector function

Terms:

• Selector - selects which elements in the DOM to work with.

References:

• Mozilla Developer Network
• Minimal sizzle selector

Description:

• Can select elements based on one of three items:

  • the given tag name
  • class name
  • or ID

• Should return an array of selected HTML elements

Examples:

domSelector('#some-id');
domSelector('.some-class');
domSelector('some-tag');

2. CSS manipulation

Terms:

• CSS (cascading style sheets) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML

References:

• Mozilla Developer Network

Description:

• Should be able to set/change single or multiple CSS property values for selected elements, and also get the value of any existing CSS property

Examples:

// set single property
cssProp(htmlElement, cssProperty, value);

// set multiple properties
cssProp(htmlElement, {cssProperty: value, cssProperty: value});

// get CSS property value
cssProp(htmlElement, cssProperty);

3. CSS class manipulation

Terms:

• CSS class selectors match an element based on the contents of the element's class attribute, one of which must match exactly the class name given

References:

• Mozilla Developer Network

Description:

• Should either add, remove, or toggle a named Class to the matched element(s), or else determine if that element is assigned that named class

Examples:

cssClass.add(htmlElement, className);
cssClass.remove(htmlElement, className);
cssClass.toggle(htmlElement, className);
cssClass.has(htmlElement, className);

4. DOM manipulation

Terms:

• "The Document Object Model (DOM) is a programming interface for HTML, XML and SVG documents. It provides a structured representation of the document (a tree) and it defines a way that the structure can be accessed from programs so that they can change the document structure, style and content."

References:

• Mozilla Developer NetworkDocument_Object_Model

Description:

• Should manipulate the DOM in the specified manner:
  • remove an element
  • append an element to the DOM
  • insert an element in the DOM after a specified element
  • insert an element in the DOM before a specified element
  • get the value of a selected element

Examples:

dom.remove(element);
dom.append(targetElement, element);
dom.after(targetElement, element);
dom.prepend(targetElement, element);
dom.before(targetElement, element);
dom.val(targetElement);

5. Ajax request function

Terms:

• Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is a model, combining multiple technologies so web applications are able to make quick, incremental updates to the user interface without reloading the entire browser page
• All data is sent as JSON

References:

• Mozilla Developer Network

Description:

• should make a successful Ajax request and post
• should call a custom function on either success or failure (with a custom context)
• should call a custom function when a request is completed (with a custom context)

Examples:

ajaxReq(url, options);

ajaxReq(url, {
  method: 'POST',
  data: {},
  context: this,
  failure: function() {},
  success: function() {},
  complete: function() {}
});

6. Event Listeners

Terms:

• Event Listeners attach event handlers to elements and listen for specified events. They specify what to do when specific events register on those elements

References:

• Mozilla Developer Network

Description:

• should register listeners for single or multiple events on the specified element and apply a callback
• should be able to remove listener callbacks from specified elements

Examples:

eventListener.on(element, event, callback);

// removes a specific callback on an element of the event type
eventListener.off(element, event, callback);

// removes all callbacks on an element of the event type
eventListener.off(element, event);

// removes all callbacks on an element
eventListener.off(element);

6.1. Additional Event Listener trigger

Description:

• Should trigger a specific event on a selected element

Example:

eventListener.trigger(element, event);

6.2. Event delegation

Description:

• Delegate a specific event to an element with the specified class name

Example:

eventListener
  .delegate(monitoredElement, className, event, callback);

7. Make learnQuery!

Create your own learnQuery library using the knowledge gained from making the previous functions. It should include all the functions you created in the previous tasks, and it should look and function similar to jQuery.

You have already created the functionality in the previous tasks. Now you simply need to provide a way to implement them.

Your solution must support chaining!

Hint: Pay attention to scope, closures, and context.

Example:

learnQuery('.thisClass')
  .on('click', callback)
  .removeClass('thisClass')
  .addClass('anotherClass');

FAQ

• What "affix()" does?

Affix accepts CSS selectors as arguments and adds those elements to the DOM. Details: https://github.com/searls/jasmine-fixture

License

LearnQuery is released under the MIT license.

Credits

Maintained and sponsored by [Infinum] (http://www.infinum.co).