I, @justinbmeyer, am going to post a weekly widget made with CanJS. I hope to continue this for as long as I have widgets to write. If you want to see something, please tweet it to @canjs. These posts are going to be quick and dirty. Eventually, I will put these up on CanJS's recipe page with a full description.
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Introducing jQuery++
Hello, my name is jQuery++. It's wonderful to meet you. Have you ever found yourself wishing jQuery had just one more feature or wanted it to be a tiny bit faster? I know I have, but I understand jQuery can't do everything. This is why the team at Bitovi created me, a collection of extremely useful DOM helpers and special events that complement jQuery.
Justin Meyer
Faster jQuery.event.fix with ES5 Getters
If you turn on a profiler in most of the apps we've built and click around like a user, after a while you'll notice jQuery.event.fix
is often taking the most time (in the video below, it takes 6.34% of the total time). Following the logic behind Amdahl's law, it makes sense that making jQuery.event.fix
faster would have the greatest impact on our apps. This article walks through:
Justin Meyer
Introducing CanJS
This past Tuesday, at JSConf in Pheonix, Bitovi released CanJS (download). CanJS is the MVC parts of JavaScriptMVC, extracted into a single script download, with additional features that make it sizzle. There’s a lot of client-side MVC libraries out there, but this article will explain what sets CanJS apart from its competition.
Brian Moschel