This week we review how we break down applications to their core architecture. Maintaining state, the MVVM pattern and more will be discussed as we use Trello and TodoMVC as real world examples.

The Bitovi team just finished our annual summer Training Retreat. We all gathered in downtown Chicago for a week with three goals:

As a preface to the upcoming sessions of how Bitovi delivers applications, we'll dive into the theory of what is needed in a successful project.

We're bringing all the jQuery knowledge from the past sessions together as we build a custom plugin. Using our own mini-jQuery library, we'll build a custom tabs widget!

We continue where we left of with DOM Events Part 2! We'll outline default actions, event propagation phases, delegation and more as we piece together the basic building blocks for complex development in a browser.

How events work in the DOM is a two part series we kick off this week! Learn about how DOM events are handled, common misunderstandings and more over the next two sessions.

We wrap up our dive into DOM elements this week with a look at how elements are laid out on a page. We'll discuss different element properties and jQuery methods to assist with finding an elements position, offset and dimensions as well as how to manipulate those properties.

Learn the difference between attributes and properties on a DOM element, how jQuery modifies these and how they are set in memory!

Following up with our sub-series into jQuery, we'll learn how to traverse the DOM, why this is efficient and a little bit of meta programming!

This week is the first in a sub-series where we break down jQuery to it's core. Build your own version of jQuery with us and gain insight into why this library is so powerful in modern applications!